Medical Terminology

I've been reading a book on Medical Terminology so that I can hit the ground running when I hop back into school. It is fascinating stuff. Reading it makes me think that I could probably make up a few words by just adding a few parts together. Also, some of the ways that the roots have been used are very interesting. For example, I was trying to think up a way to remember "-algia," which means "pain." After all, I thought, there are no English words in common use that use that suffix. Then I remembered "Nostalgia." I'm not really sure, but I'm guessing the "Nost-" comes from the Latin word for "Our," which is "Noster," which would mean that "Nostalgia" means "Our pain" which is kind of funny if you consider how it is commonly used.

PS. This isn't a dictionary definition, but I use Nostalgia as looking back fondly on memories of your long past childhood. Just in case you've never heard/used that particular word before.

Internet Course

This fall I'm going to be trying out an internet course. Since Scientific Terminology fell through, I'm going to take Medical Terminology. But when I looked at the class schedule online, all the stats were TBA. I e-mailed the teacher asking what time generally it would be held at, and she said it would be an internet course so you did it on your own time whenever you feel like it. That sounds pretty neat, but I will regret not being able to meet all my classmates, since there is no class. Now I will have no one to commiserate with. Anyway, I'm going to try out this whole internet course and see if I like it. Who knows? I might take another one someday.

By the way, all my blog posts on Medical Terminology will be under the label Ph. Therapy. Just because. Although, I might get more posts out of the poor neglected computers label with this class.

Medical Terminology

All semester long I've been trying to get a petition signed to get a class offered called "Scientific Terminology." It covers Latin and Greek roots in Medicine (and assumably a wider variety of science.) Yesterday, a pair of PHYT major girls I was eavesdropping upon were debating whether they should take "Medical Terminology."

"Hold on!" said I, "Medical Terminology? Is that the same thing as Scientific Terminology." Vapid stares and shrugs.

"It's PHYT 302, now PHYT 3020," said one of the girls.

Hmmm, thought I, perhaps Medical Terminology is the class for me!

Anyway, if my petition does get rejected, (right now it is just being ignored), I will sign up for Medical Terminology as long as my schedule fits. Hoorah! That solves my 14 hour dilemma!