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Medical Terminology / Unit 13   MedTerm 0875 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds

Building Endocrine Terms

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The idea

Endocrine terms are built more regularly than most, because a prefix of direction, a root naming a substance or gland, and a condition suffix combine without exception.

In practice

The pattern applied four times.

Where people slip

The regularity is the point of this unit. Learn one pattern and the terms build themselves.

Your place on the trail

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