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Error: Treating Two Roots as Two Structures

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Assuming a Greek root and a Latin root name different structures invents an anatomy that does not exist.

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Ren slash o and nephr slash o both name the kidney. There is no second organ.

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Neither root is more correct. Which one a term uses is fixed by convention, not by rule.