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Basic Elements of Medical Words;origin of medical English words;1. words coming from common English: whooping cough A highly contagious disease of the respiratory system, usually affecting children, that is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis and is characterized in its advanced stage by spasms of coughing interspersed with deep, noisy inspirations. Also called pertussis ; pinkeye /epidemic (流行性感冒） keratoconjunctivitis (角膜结膜炎) knock-knee/genu valgum (膝内翻) athlete’s foot /tinea pedis（足癣） piles/hemorrhoids (痔疮) lockjaw/tetanus (破伤风) fits/convulsion (惊厥）;fever; short-sight ; consumption nettle rash; stroke; baldness; indigestion; blister; swelling; measles rabies; windpipe;Words coming from Latin; remember them:; remember them:;Words coming from Greek;other common medical words from Greek;coinage;some common coinages;basic elements of medical words;root ;affixes;The combing vowel;Some examples of roots(bases);Some examples of roots(bases);;epi graph ic; graphic autograph biography geography telegraph ; electroencephalograph electr o en cephal o graph electrical in head write impulses; atrophy a troph y not nourish condition of dystrophy dys troph y poor nourish condition of ; homogenous Hom o gen ous same produce pertaining to guess the meaning gametogenesis gam e to gen e sis ; interjection inter jec tion between throw act or process injection in jec tion into throw act or process ;