SAMPLE COURSE TABLE OF CONTENTS
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WORD BUILDING COMPONENTS
Word building requires a number of components known as, prefixes,
suffixes and roots with combining vowels. Putting these component parts
together forms medical terms. Medical terms are made up of a prefix,
a suffix and a root word with combining vowel, or a
combination of root words with combining vowels and a suffix. Not
all medical terms have all three.
This medical terminology course will give you all the necessary
components (prefixes, suffixes, and root words) to understand and breakdown
any medical term, even if it is not a term listed in this course. Each
chapter of this course adds a specific number of these required component
parts. As you complete each phase of this course, you will be
expanding your medical terminology vocabulary.
The following prefixes, suffixes, roots and combining forms are
the starting point to your medical vocabulary knowledge. Knowing these terms
and their meanings will open a whole new world in the area of medical
terminology. These are the most basic and common ‘word building’
forms, and they will be repeated several times in other chapters, each time
adding new and different combinations of roots, prefixes or suffixes to
make new terms.
Remember the rule: to build or
analyze a medical term, you start with the suffix (ending) back to the
beginning (prefix or root word) and then across.
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PREFIX |
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ROOT with combining vowel |
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SUFFIX |
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