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Page 94 ERRORS IN TERMINOLOGY 249 Neurogenic bladder San Joaquin fever Otolith syndrome Scalenus anticus syndrome Pale ovary Shipyard eye Pel's crisis Singer's node Pelvic congestion, chronic Slime fever or acute Slipped disc Peripheral vascular disease Spinal meningitis Phossy jaw Splenic flexure syndrome Poker spine Steer-horn stomach Pitcher's elbow Stone-hewer's phthisis Potter's rot Stroke Proctalgia fugax Struma Pseudohemophilia, hereditary Superior vena cava syndrome Puerperal sepsis Swamp fever Pulmonary coin lesion Thyroid crisis Pulseless arterial disease Trench mouth Rabbit fever Unstable low back Rash Vagabond's disease Rectal crisis Valley fever Recurrent neoplasm War neurosis Renal colic Washerwoman's itch Restless legs Whiplash injury Rheumatic pneumonitis Whipworm Rheumatism Winter disease Rock tuberculosis Woolsorter's disease Rum fits Wrinkles Medical Terminology an Interesting Study A knowledge of medical terminology will make the tasks of the medical record librarian much easier. A knowledge of Greek and Latin is not required, but she should become familiar with some of the more common roots, prefixes, and suffixes. As these number less than a thousand, she should experience little difficulty in learning them. In fact, she should find this learning entertaining as well as rewarding, particularly if she associates stories with words. Many words have extremely interesting stories, legends, or reasons back of them. Take, for example, the term ''coccyx." This is derived from the Greek. Herophilus (335280 B.C.) first called this bone coccyx because the bone resembled the bill of the cuckoo (G. kokkos, a cuckoo). Vesalius (A.D. 15141564) gave the same explanation.
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