session-5

Title

• inside you

• doctors for women

• children

• skin-deep

• the eyes have it

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inside you

• internist: specialist in internal medicine, in the exploration of your insides.

  • This physician determines the state of your internal organs in order to discover what's happening within your body to- cause the troubles you're complaining of

  latin root: internus
              (inside)

  • internal also derives from root internus

  Note: Do not confuse internist with intern/interne, who is a medical graduate serving an apprenticeship inside a hospital

doctors for women

• gynecologist: the specialist

  greek root:   gyne    +  logos
               (woman)    (science)

  • gynecology: etymologically, the science of women (in actual use, the medical science)

    • gynecological (adj)

• obstetrician:

  latin root:  obstetrix
               (midwife)

  Note: The suffix -ician, as in obstetrician, physician, musician, magician, electrician, etc., means expert.

  • obstetrics (specialty)

  • obstetric or obstetrical (adj)

children

• pediatrician: Doctor of children

  root: paidos   +     iateria       +   -ician
        (child)    (medial healing)     (expert)

  • pediatrics: etymologically the medical healing of a child

    • pediatric (adj)

• The ped- you see in words below is from latin pedis (foot), has no relationship to greek paidos (child)

  • pedestal

  • pedal

  • pedestrian

• pedagogy: the leading of a child (teaching & development)

• pedagogue: narrow-minded teacher

• demagogue: one who mislead the people

  • demagoguery

  • demagogic

skin-deep

• dermatologist: Skin doctor

  root: derma
        (skin)

• hypodermic: needle penetrates under the skin

• epidermis: the outermost layer of skin

• taxidermist: whose business is taxidermy, prepares, stuffs & mounts the skins of animals

• pachyderm: an animal with an unusually thick skin

• dermatitis: the general name for any skin inflammation, irritation, or infection

the eyes have it

• ophthalmologist: eye doctor (physician)

• Earlier title: oculist

latin root: oculus
            (eye)

• ocular: an adjective that refers to the eye

• monocle: a lens for one eye

• binoculars: field glasses that increases the range of two eyes

• inoculate: an eye puncture, or hole to inject serum

• optometrists: they measure vision, test for glaucoma, and prescribe and fit glasses

  • they are not physician and don't perform surgery or administer drugs

• optician: fill an optometrist's or ophthalmologist's prescription, grinding lenses according to specifications, they do not examine patients