Scientific Writing for HTI Students

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Do you know these words?

The aim of this activity is to measure the number of words that you know on this topic. Below is a list of words related to this topic. Some of them are real English words, but some are wrong. Click on the ones that are real, and ignore the wrong ones. Clicking real words will increase your score, but clicking wrong ones will decrease it. When you have finished, click on the 'Check Answer' button. The program will give you feedback and advice on which words you need to learn.

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The real words of the wrong words are shown in blue.

ultraound ultrasound	tomagraphy tomography	radiographer	side effects
out patient	sedate	photons	parotod parotid
proponents	annually	readiation radiation	x-ray
therapy	rhutorical rhetorical	anedote anecdote	nonrelevant irrelevant
restriction	recommendasion recommendation	persuasive	potental potential
stress	ianizing ionizing	chemotherapy	psychological
chronological	historical	span	chunk
exclucive exclusive	advocate	escalation	deorientation misorientation
refensive defensive	acute	dose	pallitive palliative
objective	scenario	acessibility accessibility	distinct
incidense incidence	diagnosis	radioactive	imaging
tumor	malignansy malignancy	asymptomatice asymptomatic	detecsion detection
screening	IMRT	scan

Match the word to the definition

Fill in the gap with the best word.

It is only when pain and fever are masked by the palliative of aspirin that boils erupt on the human body.
(Answer: palliative )
His acuteness in the detection of errors is no less admirable than is the ingenuity shown in their correction.
(Answer: detection )
Radioactive material is a physical material that emits ionizing radiation.
(Answer: ionizing )
The incidence of occurrence, especially the number of new cases of a disease in a population over a period of time.
(Answer: incidence )
The richness of information and accessibility social networks offer is potentially wonderful.
(Answer: accessibility )
The division of a total therapeutic dose of radiation into small doses to be administered over a period of days or weeks is known as fractionation.
(Answer: doses )
She recounts anecdote after anecdote illustrating how she beat the odds.
(Answer: anecdote ,anecdote )
Proponents say hemp could meet an increasingly larger percentage of our domestic fiber and fuel needs.
(Answer: Proponents )
But more important, he was in acute pain, so needed immediate treatment.
(Answer: acute )
Light itself is made up of particles called photons .
(Answer: photons )

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