Medical Terminology
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| Root | the basic meaning of a term.
a medical term can have multiple roots.
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| Combining Vowel | Adds a root to a root or a root to a suffix
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| Suffix | adds additional meaning to the end of a term
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| If a ....... begins in a vowel,(A,E,I,O,U) do not use a combining vowel | Suffix,
Example: Hepat/itis
Hepat = Liver, itis=inflammation
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| Direction Read | Read a medical term from rear to the front
example: Electro/cardio/gram; the record (gram) of the electricity (electro) of the heart (cardio)
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| Myocarditis | inflammation (itis) of the muscle (myo) of the heart (cardi)
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| Combining Form | a root plus a combining vowel is combining form
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