Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0069 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-malacia: Softening
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The idea
The suffix malacia names abnormal softening of the tissue its root identifies.
In practice
Osteomalacia is softening of bone.
Where people slip
Softening is a change in tissue quality, not in size or shape.
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