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Abbreviations
Basic medical notes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hippocrates | Father of medicine |
| Etymology | The study of the origins of words |
| -Tomy | cutting |
| Phlebotomy | incision of a vein |
| Compound words | Two words with different meaning coming together to make one meaning |
| word root | The main part of a word contains basic meaning |
| prefix | Word parts attracted to the beginning of the word |
| Combing Forms | word root combing vowels that correct or links the two parts |
| suffix | word part attached to the end of a word that modified the meaning |