aid/aide

Posted By: nm on 2006-05-24
In Reply to: Words that always stop and make you look twice - no particular reason

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Words that always stop and make you look twice - no particular reason
- insure and ensure - nm
- enervation/innervation - M.A.
- This AM on the fwy. on the way to work, I was behind.... (sm) - Double-take
- how about imbedded and embedded -sm- - sede
- adduction/abduction; ileum/ilium (usually get it right though) - nm - XXX
  - One of my doctors... - grateful
- passed/past - another one
- iliac/ileac - ss
  - iliac/ileac - entero
  - Try remembering this... - sm
  - iliac = hip ("i" in both); ileac = bowel ("e" in both) - mac
- I usually get stuck on the easy ones....lol - sm
- aid/aide - nm
- Ace/ACE - busyMT
- affect/effect. nm - Mimi
  - affect/effect - abmt
  - Definately affect/effect! Hate those! - nm
    - The word definitely can be challenging, too :). - It's an easy mistake.
- apposition/opposition.........nm - words that confuse......
  - Yeah, can someone please go over this one again? nm - After 15 years, I have to think about it.
- elicit/illicit... - makesmegohmmm...nm
  - remember this . . . - Mimi
    - hey, thanks a bunch! I'll remember that... - makesmegohmmm...nm
    - yep, that's how I remember this one too. - agreed
  - oops..should be ellicit...nm - makesmegohmmm...nm
    - Actually I think you were right the first time...elicit. - nm
- Used to be vesical and vesicle but I got it now. LOL. nm - Itsy-Bitsy

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How about a home health aide or an aide for Hospice? Get paid weekly, too. nm
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Was nurses aid, then aide in ICU, then ward clerk, then
MORE medical terms cuz halo the docs were professors, and they let me play PA under their supervision, then w/comp supervisor, then pregnant, then had to find a PMs job and landed in transcription dept as trainee. If I could meet their requirements, I stuck. If not, I was fired. I stuck.