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« on: November 29, 2019, 05:52:42 AM »
I was looking into why bariatrics and hypobaric contain "bari". 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16105397/
"Bari means weight or pressure in ancient and modern Greek. However, bari denotes obese in biblical Hebrew and healthy in modern Hebrew. The Greek language and the Hebrew language (spoken by many ancient Northwest Semitic peoples) come from different language roots."
Isn't it cute when physicians get curious about language?  Ha ha. 
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