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MEDTERM GRAMMER RULE
Question | Answer |
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Eponyms | Terms derived from the name of a person or place. Example, Apgar Score, West Nile virus |
Suffixes commonly indicate | procedures, conditions, diseases. -scopy, -itis, -oma. Meaning visual examination, inflammation, and tumor. |
Prefixes often indicate | number, position, direction, time, negation. BIpedal, SUBcutantious, INTRAvenous, PROgnosis, Atypical. |
Combining vowels can be used in between all parts of a word except | Between a prefix and a word root |
When are combing vowels commonly used | When there is no vowel between the root word and the suffix, and between word roots when there is no vowel. |
In which case are combining vowels not used between root word and suffix | If either the root word ends with a vowel or the suffix begins with a vowel |