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10. Read the dialogue from the exercise 8 and write the pa-
tient’s medical notes using the form from ex. 9.
11.
a. Complete these tables by adding a definition of each suffix
and then give an example of medical terminology for each.
Suffix
Definition/
Related to
Example of
medical
terminology
Suffix
Definition/
Related to
Example of
medical
terminology
-algia pain -oma
-aemia -osis
-uria -pathy
-ectomy removal of hysterectomy -penia
-genic -phagia
-itis arthritis -plasty
-ology -pnoea
-rrhoea -phobia
b. With a partner, practise explaining this terminology as if to a
patient.
Example: Arthritis means you are suffering from inflammation of
the joints.
Grammar exercises
1. Translate the following sentences into Russian paying at-
tention to the modal verbs.
1. To be a successful scientist one must at the very least be able to
ask questions.
2. If there was someone to put a question there must be somebody,
sooner or later, to answer it.
3. A good experimenter has to be a jack of all trades.
4. There has to be a way out of any situation.
5. The traditional question behind the research has been: “How is
this to be explained?”
6. The answer to the question was sometimes to require more than
one generation of researchers.