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"Brady Bunch"? I don't know why I'm thinking that's so funny, being a PWP myself, but I do...Carole H. --- William Heitman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In a message dated 11/1/99 8:02:57 PM Central Standard > Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << about one third of the way down this paragraph, it > seems to have an error. > the word "bradycardia" is used for slow movement. but, > bradycardia is slow > pulse i believe. >> > > > Joe, > > At some risk of insulting your intelligence by being > longwinded about nuances > that you find intuitively obvious after casual > observation, first, you are > correct. Second, "brady" of course, means slow. A > gathering of off Parkies > could be known as a "Brady Bunch" because of slowness . > The brady prefix can > be used to describe any number of slow processes: kinesia > (slow body > movement) phrenia (slowness of thought), and cardia > -(heart) are three that > easily come to mind. > > IMHO, this error might have occurred by two ways. > 1. Since the advent of PCs with word processors, almost > everybody writes > everything on one of these. Sometimes the spell checker > will offer a word > just slightly different in spelling from the desired one. > 2. It is possible that a human editor, operating from > ignorance, could have > done he same thing thinking he knew what the author > wanted to say. Still, you > are talking about the Merck Manual ,. It shouldn't have > been there. > > WHH > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com