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Combining Form

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a word root with a combining vowel added at the end, used when two word roots are combined or when a suffix beginning with a consonant is added. When a combining form appears alone, it is shown with a back slash (/) between the word root and the combining vowel.

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Wood Root

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Contains basic meaning of term. Usually means, but not always, indicates the involved body part.

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Suffix

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Usually but not always, indicates the procedure, condition, disorder, or disease.

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Prefix

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Usually, but not always, indicates location time, number, or status.

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Cyan/o

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Blue

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Erthr/o

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Red

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Luek/o

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White

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Melan/o

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Black

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Poli/o

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Gray

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Cyanosis

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Blue discoloration of the skin caused by a lack of adequate oxygen in the blood

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Erythrocyte

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A mature red blood cell

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-Cyte

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Cell

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Leukocyte

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White blood cell

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Melanosis

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Any condition of unusual deposits of black pigment in body tissue or organs.

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Osis

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Abnormal condition or disease

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Poliomyelisis

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A viral infection of the gray nerve tissue of the spinal cord

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Gastroenteritis

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Inflammation of the stomach and small intestine

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neur/o

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Nerve

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plasty

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Surgical repair

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rrhaphy

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Surgical suturing

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plasty and rrhaphy have a combining vowel O is used because..

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Both begin with a consonant

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Neuroplasty

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Surgical repair of a nerve

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Neurorrhaphy

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Suturing together of a nerve

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Word root tonsill

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Means Tonsils

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If adding itis(inflammation) or ectomy(surgical removal) to tonsill, is a vowel needed? Why?

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No vowel needed B/C they both start with a vowel

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Tonsillitis

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Inflammation of the tonsils

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Tonsillectomy

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Surgical removal of the tonsils

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Cranium

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The portion of the skull that encloses the brain

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Crani

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Skull

30
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Cardi

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Heart

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-ac

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Pertaining to

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Cardiac

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Pertaining to heart

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Sufixes meaning “pertaining to”

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-ac -al -an -ar -ary -eal -ical -ial -ic -ine -ior -ory -ous -tic

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Gastrosis

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Means any disease of the stomach

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Pathology

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Study of all aspects of diseases

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path

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Disease

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ology

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Study of

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