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Advanced English Dictionary & Thesaurus App for... →
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English with up to 140,000 entries and more than 1.4 million words, developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.
Instead of following the standard dictionary format, the WordNet dictionary is organized with an innovative and convenient approach. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms,...
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Anonymous asked: This blog is great! :D could you recommend some similar blogs like this one? I'd love to follow more to expand my vocabulary.
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Anatomy Terminology and Derivation #01 →
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Anatomy - Greek. From “ana” up, and “tomy” dissect.
Artery - Latin. Means “air holder”. Carries oxygenated blood. With the last contraction of the heart, blood goes out through the arteries. In early medicine, it was thought that, “If there is no blood, it must hold air.”
Genitals - Latin. From “genesis”. Means “birth”.
Carotid - Latin. From “carotides”. Means “stupor” because...
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The Importance of Knowing Both Terminology and...
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… It helps you remember what words mean! If you study a very complicated subject, such as science, there are a lot of terms you need to know. Science terminology, especially medical terminology, is practically a whole ‘nother language. So it’s important that you not only learn what words mean, but also that you can remember them. What good is it to spend time memorizing...
