Medical Terminology / Unit 12 MedTerm 0805 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Reading Neurological and Sensory Terms
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The idea
Reading a neurological or sensory term means identifying which of three things it describes: sensation, movement, or a special sense.
In practice
Nine terms sorted into three groups.
Where people slip
Plegia and paresis attach to the same prefixes and name complete against partial loss. That single distinction changes the finding.
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