Match the word with the best description.
A. words based on the personal names of people
B. a vocabulary that specializes in words or phrases of a clinical or medical nature
C. the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them that has been established by long usage and understood by the medical profession
D. a recognized system of preferred clinical or medical terminology
E. a chosen set of words, usually arranged in alphabetical order, understood and accepted by a community
F. also referred to as terminology
A. eponyms
B. clinical vocabulary
C. medical language
D. clinical terminology
E. vocabulary
F. nomenclature
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A) "I see. Can you describe what the pain feels like?" B) "I understand it hurts, please go on." C) "Hmmm. That really seems to hurt a lot." D) "So what you are saying is that it hurts more when you breathe?"
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