Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0070 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-sclerosis: Hardening
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The idea
The suffix sclerosis names abnormal hardening of the tissue its root identifies.
In practice
Arteriosclerosis is hardening of the arteries.
Where people slip
Sclerosis and malacia are opposites. Reading one for the other reverses the finding.
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