Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0099 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-graph: The Instrument
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The idea
The suffix graph names the instrument that produces the record of the structure its root identifies.
In practice
An electrocardiograph is the machine that produces the tracing.
Where people slip
Graph is the machine, gram is the paper, graphy is the process.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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