{"id":23864,"date":"2017-01-31T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23864"},"modified":"2017-01-31T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:54:23","slug":"understanding-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/understanding-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Terms Create Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/endomor.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By: C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Medical terminology can be confusing. When I went in for a physical as a kid, the doctor would say to his nurse, &#8220;He&#8217;s an ectomorph.&#8221; (Sounded like a dinosaur to me.)<\/p>\n<p>If that was not bad enough, I started seeing this term on my physical reports, which I took a peek at while the doctor was out conferring in the hall. Ectomorph, is that good or bad? I did not know but I noticed on the forms that it was alongside mesomorph and endomorph. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/health\/medical-terms.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: C. MacDonald Medical terminology can be confusing. When I went in for a physical as a kid, the doctor would say to his nurse, &#8220;He&#8217;s an ectomorph.&#8221; (Sounded like a dinosaur to me.) If that was not bad enough, I started seeing this term on my physical reports, which I took a peek at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}