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I want people to understand how formulaic language is! Here, I break down a list of words which I will provide below. 

Lactic Acidosis 

• “osis” meaning illness (having been cause by lactic acid)
• “metabolic” – meaning/referring to “cell division” 

Hyper Metabolic Lymph nodes

• “hyper” – meaning “high”
• “metabolic” – meaning “cell division”
• Lymph Nodes – Denoting the structures in your body where white blood cells from your immune system, accumulate and drain.

Generalized Tonic Clonic (From the ancient Greek)

• “Tonos” – “To stretch”
• “Clonus” – “Violent and confused motion, muscular spasm”

Upper-Extremity Dysmetria

• “Dys” – “wrong”
• “Metria” – “length”

Ataxic Gate

• “a” – “without”
• “taxic” – “order”
• “gait” – referring to an individual’s manner of walking

Bradycardia

• “brady” – “slow”
• “cardia” – referring to heart rate

Hypophosphatemia

• “hypo” – “low”
• “phosphate” – referring to the important anion that exists mainly instead of an individual’s cells
• “emia” – meaning “presence in blood”

- Therefore, when put all together, Hypophosphatemia means “Low Phosphate Presence in Blood”

Atrophy

• “a” – “without”
• “trophy” – “nourishment”

Acute Hyponatremia

• “hypo” – “low”
• “natr” – pertaining to sodium (NA; Natrium)
• “emia” – “presence in blood”

- So, “Low Sodium Presence in Blood”

Rhabdomyolysis

• “rhabdo” – “striated or skeletal” (Skeletal Muscle is striated in appearance)
• “myo” – “muscle” (myofibril)
• “lysis” – “breakdown”

- Therefore, “Skeletal Muscle Breakdown” is what this term literally means

Hypokalemia

• “hypo” – “low”
• “kal” – “potassium” (K; Kalium)
• “emia”- “presence in blood”
• “Low Potassium Presence in Blood”