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Tips for Learning Medical Terminology

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Medical terminology can look difficult to pronounce, spell, and even to understand the meanings. Other than memorization, name some ideas to make it easier to learn medical terms.

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Some ideas to make it easier to learn medical terms is discussed.

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A lot of medical and scientific words come from Latin. This isn't to suggest that you needed to know Latin or learn it as a prerequisite, however, that can be where it breaks down. Those words are not necessarily from our orientation of German, and other languages, for which English is derived.

Using mnemonic strategies is useful.

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