Introduction To Health Care (mindtap Course List)
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ISBN: 9780357123072
Author: Lee Haroun, Dakota Mitchell
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Five examples of medical terms with a prefix and suffix and their meaning.
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The four types of word parts used to create medical terms are: word roots, combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes. A suffix always comes at the end of the word. A prefix always comes at the beginning of a word.
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