Medical Terminology
Medical terms consist of:
word construction
Why do they sound strange?
Dropping a letter:
hepato-
hepatitis
Example of dropped letters:
The order of word construction
What comes first?
What comes next?
Prefix and root:
Roots
Suffix and root
Suffixes
singular versus plural
Example
roots: external anatomy
roots: external anatomy cont.
Suffixes to know
suffixes - pathological conditions
suffixes continued...
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Specific use for suffixes
suffixes : surgical
suffixes surgical cont.:
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