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by magarnicle 252 days ago
Usually English will try to come up with a single, Latin-or-Greek-derived word for compound ideas like this, which is another bad habit.

So surgery is full of -ectomies instead of -cut-outs.

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Medicine terms in German also use Latin or Greek, since this is the subject language, so this is a bad example.