003 Pronunciation Guide

When teaching anatomical terms it almost as important to pronounce the structures properly as it was to establish a universal anatomical terminology. The following table will aide in pronouncing the Latin nomenclature.

Symbol	Example	Symbol	Example
	pat		pot
	pay		toe
âr	care		boot
	pet		cut
	bee		about, item, edible, gallop, circus
	pit	ô	caught, paw, for, horrid, hoarse
	pie, by	oi	noise
Z	zebra, xylem		butter
zh	vision, pleasure, garage	ûr	urge, term, firm, word, heard
*From the American Heritage Dictionary*