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Medical Terminology · Chapter 1

Say It, Spell It, Pluralize It

A term you cannot pronounce is a term you will avoid saying, and on a busy unit hesitation gets read as uncertainty. Work the three benches below: mark the stressed syllable, find the letters that stay silent, and turn Greek and Latin singulars into the plurals that appear in charts.
0/0stress
0/0silent
0/0plurals

What your ear should have caught

Bench one: stress.
English medical pronunciation puts the accent in fairly predictable places. Click the syllable you would lean on, and the bench will name the rule that put it there.