Medical Terminology / Unit 10 MedTerm 0623 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Building Digestive Terms
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The idea
Building a digestive term means selecting the combining form, then the suffix, then applying the joining rules.
In practice
Four builds, each join named.
Where people slip
Build two applies two different rules at two joins, and is the term Unit 1 used to introduce the rule.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0008Rule: A Combining Form Links a Consonant Suffix
- 0009Rule: A Word Root Links a Vowel Suffix
- 0011Rule: A Combining Form Links Root to Root
- 0589gastr/o: Stomach
- 0595enter/o: Small Intestine
- 0596col/o and colon/o: Colon
- 0601hepat/o: Liver
- 0602cholecyst/o: Gallbladder
- 0062-itis: Inflammation
- 0088-ectomy: Excision
- 0095-scopy: Visual Examination
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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