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Skull or Cranium? Why the Body Has Two Vocabularies

Why English often has an everyday body word and a separate clinical one, from skull/cranium and heart/cardiac to kidney/renal and skin/dermal.

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How Physics Reused Everyday Words: Work, Force, Power, Field and Charge

Physics gives exact meanings to familiar words. Understanding the gap between everyday and technical usage explains many common misconceptions in mechanics and electricity.

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The Difference Between Incidence and Prevalence

Incidence measures new cases arising over time; prevalence measures all existing cases in a population. Learn the formulas, variants and reasons the two measures can move differently.

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