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