Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0007 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Error: Treating the Combining Vowel as Part of the Root
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The idea
The combining vowel belongs to the combining form, not to the word root, so a term uses either the root or the combining form.
In practice
Gastritis uses the root gastr; gastroscopy uses the combining form gastr slash o.
Where people slip
Treating gastro as the root predicts gastroitis, which is not a word.
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