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Abbreviations
Basic medical notes
Term | Definition |
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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 |