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Juliette Mullin, Editor
I may not be a diehard spelling champion, but I've been fascinated by the national spelling bee ever since I saw the documentary "Spellbound." The event is televised live on ESPN for a reason: It's a nail-biting competition that children in elementary and middle schools spend months intensely training for.
Last night, a medical term bested one of the final 12 competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Jamaica's Tajaun Gibbison misspelled the word "chartula," or a folded paper containing a single dose of a medicinal powder (according to Merriam Webster). The mistake landed the 13-year-old in 10th place.
As anyone in health care knows, the industry has some of the hardest-to-spell words around. Here are some of the medical terms that earned children their championship trophies in the last 20 years:
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