Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0006 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Combining Form
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The idea
A combining form is a word root plus its combining vowel, written in this course with a slash: gastr slash o.
In practice
In gastr slash o, gastr is the root and o is the combining vowel.
Where people slip
The slash is notation for teaching. It never appears in a finished term.
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- 0007Error: Treating the Combining Vowel as Part of the Root
- 0008Rule: A Combining Form Links a Consonant Suffix
- 0014Building a Term from Its Parts
- 0047Capstone: Decoding Six Unfamiliar Terms
- 0192cyt/o: Cell
- 0261derm/o and dermat/o: Skin
- 0321oste/o: Bone
- 0401cardi/o: Heart
- 0481lymph/o: Lymph
- 0521pneum/o and pneumon/o: Lung or Air
- 0581or/o: Mouth
- 0661ren/o: Kidney
- 0751neur/o: Nerve
- 0851endocrin/o: Endocrine
- 0901onc/o: Tumour
- 0991Capstone: One Root Across Four Units
- 1000Capstone: The Whole System in One Term
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