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Identify the roles of the four types of word parts used in forming medical terms. Use your knowledge of word parts to analyze unfamiliar medical terms. Describe the steps in locating a term in a medical dictionary. Define the commonly used word roots, combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes introduced in this chapter.
Most medical terms contain at least one root, and they may also contain one or more prefixes or suffixes. This handout will describe how word parts create meaning to provide a strategy for decoding medical terminology and unfamiliar words in the English language.
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Medical terms are built from word parts. Those word parts are prefix, word root, sufix, and combining form vowel. When a word root is combined with a combining form vowel, the word part is referred to as a combining form. Word Parts (Text Version) Make sure you understand key parts of medical terminology.
A comprehensive guide to medical prefixes and suffixes, essential for understanding medical terminology.
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Find out why you and your doctor sometimes are speaking different languages. Learn how to put together parts of medical words. See what you've learned by taking short quizzes. Learn more with links to lists of word parts and abbreviations. Get the reference material for this tutorial.
