When I started this blog, I said it would be about things I learned in my homeschooling years. In order to make good on that promise, today's entry is based on one of my favorite homesschool teaching tips --- the vocabulary notebook. (This is also a suggested activity in Far Above Rubies and Blessed is the Man unit studies.)

From the earliest time they could read and write, my children were required to keep a spiral notebook in which they recorded and defined new words they learned each week. There were to be at least ten new words (previously unfamiliar) per week, which could come from homeschool subjects, indelendent study, leisure reading, or any other source.  Each word would then be listed inn the book with its definition(s).

Along that vein, I present my "Hospital Vocabulary" words.  I am afraid I was not able to find ten, but here's what I have learned since I have been here.

attending (used as a noun in medical circles only)

geriatrician

inspirometer

ostomy ( or ostomy bag)

palliative (used in front of the word 'care' )

"squamous cell (called by doctors here 'squeamy" cell)

suprapubic

You will notice thst I did not give the definitions.  That is your assignment, should you decide to accept it. Post thedefinitiosn here or email them to me, if you wish. Most of the wordas are easy to discern as they are made from other words or come from common roots.  At any rate, I thought it would be fun. (See I told you it was boring up here.)