Skip to main content
SWStudyWalks Search

Medical Terminology / Unit 11   MedTerm 0700 short lesson, about 20 seconds

nat/o: Birth

Captions available

The idea

The combining form nat slash o names birth.

In practice

Prenatal means before birth; postnatal means after it.

Where people slip

Nat slash o names the event of birth, not the infant.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it  ·  Sources for Medical Terminology