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What a Medical Term Is
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A medical term is a word built from fixed parts, each part carrying a stable meaning, so an unfamiliar term can be decoded rather than memorized.
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Carditis breaks into card, heart, and itis, inflammation: inflammation of the heart.
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Not every term is built this way. Some are names; some were borrowed whole.
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- Nothing — this is a starting point.