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track versus tract - Mel
Posted: Apr 22, 2013
HELP! We can never keep this straight....when do you use track and when do you use tract?
what it does versus what it is - research
[ In Reply To ..]Tract is a thing. "I probed the tract."
Track is what it does. "The tract tracked lateral to the opening."
track versus tract - Mel
[ In Reply To ..]So a chest tube track is something left behind by a chest tube, therefore it is tract?
what it does versus what it is - research
[ In Reply To ..]just a thought, is this for school?
track versus tract - Mel
[ In Reply To ..]Nope, just a question my coworkers and I hash over every now and then....Thanks for you help!
hashing things over - research
[ In Reply To ..]Every time I take my fingers off my keyboard, I lose money, and you do too if you and your coworkers hash this out every now and then. Take a Post-It sticker, write down "tract -noun" and "track - verb" and stick to your computer monitor so you have no need for non-productive downtime.
track versus tract - Mel
[ In Reply To ..]Not really in a job where I lose lots of money when discussing work-related things...we are paid hourly....one of my co-workers found a definition for track in the dictionary that is definitely a noun and works here...."A path, route or course indicated by marks left by something that has passed"
Tract versus track - (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]That sounds like a definition for something like paw prints left in the snow or dirt by an animal, i.e., animal tracks. I doubt if you would find a lot of use for that meaning of the word "track" in medicine except for perhaps "needle tracks." Examples of tract: Urinary tract, digestive tract, sinus tract, fistula tract, biliary tract, tract of Burdach, and the list goes on ad nauseam. Track can be a noun or a verb, but we see it as MTs most often used as a verb meaning how something pertaining to the body courses. A tract can course (track) through a region in the body. A track (in noun form) can also be a running track, a track of music on a CD (a song), a course of study (premed track), etc.
doesn't matter QA makes up their own rules/nm - tynkerbelle
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Track v. Tract - msg
[ In Reply To ..]I came across this while looking for how to describe a bullet track/tract. Still not exactly sure. I guess it's kind of like a fistulous tract.
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