discectomy or diskectomy

Posted By: me on 2006-10-20
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I am typing a report and spelled it discectomy; however I looked at a sample for this account and it is spelled diskectomy. I thought it was discectomy. I looked in Stedman's and diskectomy is not listed. I also checked stedman's online and it does not find it.

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discectomy or diskectomy - me
- depends on body part - lai
  - You are mistaken. Look up disc/disk in your sm - Nona
  - Not anymore...according to AAMT now always use disk, for eyes too. nm - nm
    - And where did the AAMT - mtanon
    - And who listens to them? Not me. - nm
      - That's why the field is in the state it is...no guidelines followed.... - sm
- I think it is the doc's preference (sm) - CAMT
  - hmm must be 2 CAMTs on board sm - CAMT
  - depends on the doc - Escriptionist
- Diskectomy. (AAMT BOS-2 prefers disk, too.) - nm

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I have always been told it was discectomy with a c and not a k, disc and not disk, etc. Got a note from QA saying it was disk with a k and not a c. Have I been doing this wrong for over 10 years??!!

Thanks for any info!

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