Question

Part A Many medical terms are listed as “commonly misspelled words.” Discuss two strategies for recognizing correctly and incorrectly spelled terms and suggest two ways to avoid making mistakes in spelling.

Part B People in science and health care professions often use medical eponyms - terms that are named after people. Research medical eponyms and contribute at least 2 for the whole class to learn.

Answer 1

Part A.

The two ways to recognizing correctly and incorrectly spelled terms

• Use of the mneumonics to check whether the spelled word is correct are not
• When the rules are followed the errors can be identified in a word easily.

Two ways to avoid mistakes in spelling are

• Continuous training and being updated regarding words.
• Identifying the spelling which can be commonly made mistake and avoiding it.

Part B.

Medical eponyms are nothing but the disease condition ,procedure ,treatment ,tests, etc. ,in medical field is named after the inventor of it in order to honor them

For example :

• Parkinson disease was coined after the name of James Parkinson
• Alzheimer disease name was coined in order to honor Alois Alzheimer who was a physician .