Adduction - Abduction

sunnygirl272 · Mar 7, 2003

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Originally posted by passing thru
I was bamboozled with these today. Does anyone have a tip from school to help me remember which is which?

When a child is ABDUCTED she is taken AWAY from her parents....

When you ADD something. You are putting it TOGETHER...

Vsummer1 · Mar 7, 2003

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Originally posted by sunnygirl272
When a child is ABDUCTED she is taken AWAY from her parents....

When you ADD something. You are putting it TOGETHER...

LOL -- yep, you beat me to the punch. That is exactly how I learned it!

Ortho_RN · Mar 7, 2003

Me too.. ?

sunnygirl272 · Mar 7, 2003

Dean Vaughn ROCKS!!!!

Lausana · Mar 7, 2003

Ditto! A study hint I used:

Why shouldn't you thrust out your thumb to hitchhike: You could get abducted

TeresaRN2b · Mar 7, 2003

I was about to post that too! That's how I remember it.

passing thru · Mar 7, 2003

Thanks a lot Sunnygirl! I've never heard that, but I'm sure I won't forget adduct and abduct again !!

dianthe1013 · Mar 7, 2003

I always think "ab" as in "abnormal" - away from normal. But that's just me.

If I were you, I'd try to get a mnemonic or trick for one down and not worry about the other; once you get one, the other comes automatically.

Good luck!

Donna :)

nursedawn67, LPN · Mar 7, 2003

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Originally posted by sunnygirl272
when a child is ABDUCTED she is taken AWAY from her parents....

when you ADD something.you are putting it TOGETHER...

Exactly how I remember it! :roll

Mimi Wheeze · Mar 7, 2003

That's how I remembered it too, sunnygirl!

And here I thought I had made it up all on my own!

natsfanrn · Mar 7, 2003

I always remembered it by thinking that in abduction, the "b" faces away from the "a" and in adduction, the "d" is toward the "a"...