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Building a Term from Its Parts

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Building a medical term means applying four joining rules: the prefix attaches directly, a root links a vowel suffix, a combining form links a consonant suffix, and a combining form links root to root.

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Four builds, each join named as it is made.

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The rules apply at each join separately. One term can use the root at one join and the combining form at the next, as gastroenterology does.