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CTTC - Challenging/Confusing words

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Pruritis   noun meaning an itchy skin condition  
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Purulent   adjective meaning containing, consisting of, or forming pus  
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Radicle   and anatomic word; radicles are the smallest branches  
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Retroperitoneal   adverb meaning behind the peritoneum (a direction)  
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Reperitonealize   verb meaning to cover again with peritoneum  
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Shoddy   inferior good, hastily or poorly done  
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Shotty   like shot, lead pellets used in shotguns  
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Sulfa   pertaining to the sulfonamides, the sulfa drugs  
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Sulfur   brimstone, an element, the symbol for which is S  
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Tendon   noun meaning a band of connective tissue  
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Tendinous   adjective meaning resembling a tendon  
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Tendonitis   noun meaning inflammation of a tendon or tendon  
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Tympanites   drumlike distention of the abdomen due to air or gas in the intestine or peritioneal cavity  
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Tympanitis   inflammation of the middle ear  
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Ureter   tube from kidney to bladder; there is a left and right ureter  
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Urethra   tube carrying urine our of the body; one per person  
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Vagus   noun meaning the tenth cranial nerve or vagus nerve  
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Valgus   adjective meaning bent outward, twisted, deformed  
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Vesicle   `little blister or sac  
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Vesical   urinary bladder only  
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Villus   (pl. villi) noun meaning little protrusion adjective meaning shaggy with with soft hairs  
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Villous   adjective meaning shaggy with soft hairs  
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Xerosis   dryness  
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Cirrhosis   liver disease  
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