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Medical Terminology Study Guide Illustrated Guide to Medical Terminology Introduction Have you ever visited your doctor s office, a diagnostic center, or a hospital and wondered what the medical professionals were talking about? It probably sounded like a foreign language to you. In many ways, medical terminology is a language all its own. There is a name for every part of the human body and a term to describe diseases, disorders, etc., of every organ and system. The Illustrated Guide to Medical Terminology is a comprehensive approach to understanding anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, and pathology. The book s theme is Read, Look, and Listen, meaning you should read the text in the book, look at the pictures and diagrams, and listen to the terms pronounced on the accompanying audio CD.

7. T F In medical language, the root is almost always written in the combining form. 8. T F A suffix is found at the beginning of the word and is attached to a root or a prefix. 9. T F A prefix can be attached to the beginning of the word root or sometimes a suffix. 10. T F Always use a combining vowel before a suffix that begins with a vowel.

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  Study, Words, Prefix, Suffix, Root, Root words

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