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<h1 align="center">Understanding Medical Words Tutorial</h1>
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<p> Some final tips about "alphabet soup." You know—those strings of letters that you see on requests for lab work or other tests. </p>
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<p> They aren't words—the letters are shorthand for longer words. They may be abbreviations or acronyms (words made of letters from several words.) </p>
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<li><strong>CBC</strong> is <strong>Complete Blood Count</strong>, a lab test that measures the number of different types of blood cells.</li>
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<p> Who invented these? And why? Health professionals use abbreviations so they don't have to repeatedly write out those long medical words! </p>
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<li><strong>MRI</strong> is <strong>magnetic resonance imaging</strong>, a type of diagnostic test using images.</li>
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<li><strong>CMV</strong> is <strong>cytomegalovirus</strong>, a virus that causes a variety of infections.</li>
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