Flashcards: Using flashcards in EMP
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VirginiaAllum on December 10, 2011
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Teachers can make flashcards to practise a particular topic. Students can make their own flashcards to revise medical terms, lab values..anything!
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 EMP | English for Medical Purposes |
| medical terminology | terms used to describe diseases or conditions |
| acronyms | letters which stand in place of a word |
| abbreviations | shortening of words |
| jargon | special language used by people of the same profession or group |
| prefix | letters which go before a word root to change its meaning |
| suffix | letters which go after a word root to change its meaning |