Introduction To Health Care (mindtap Course List)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780357123072
Author: Lee Haroun, Dakota Mitchell
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 4RQ
Summary Introduction
To analyze:
Steps for breaking and interpreting medical terms into their components.
Introduction:
Medical terms are composed of several parts, referred as word parts. Each word parts have its meaning and location in terms.
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