Optician Flashcards
The combining root form of “Carcin”
Carcin/o
T/F combining vowels may be added in to link in the root to a suffix or to another root, which becomes a combining form.
True
T/F combining vowels are dropped if the suffix starts with vowel.
True
When you add a suffix to a word that ends with X change it to what?
Examples: pharynx
g or c
Pharyngeal
Suffixes that starts with “rh” to a word root word?
Double the “r”
Word and plural ending
Vertebra
Vertebrae
Lumen
Lumina
Matrix
Matrices
Diagnosis
Diagnoses
Stigma
Stigmata
Phalanx
Phalanges
Ganglion
Ganglia
Thrombus
Thrombi
Word ending with
a
ae
“en”
“Ina”
What is the plural ending of ex, ix, yx
“Ices”
What is the plural ending of
“Ma”
“Mata”
What is the plural ending of
“ nx, inx anx ynx nix “
“angels”
What is the plural ending of
“on”
“a”
What is the plural ending of
“um”
“a”
