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Define and describe main ideas of component medical terms.
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
01/16/2018

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1. List the 4 elemental components used to create medical terms?
Definition
1. Prefix, Root, Combining Form, and Suffix.
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2. Define medical terminology?
Definition
2. The study of terms that are used in the art and science of medicine.
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3. What is the main component of a medical term?
Definition
3. The Root word.
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4. What does the suffix grade and meter mean?
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4. Grade- A step, Meter- measure.
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5. What position does a prefix take? For instance- The beginning, middle, or end of word?
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5. The begining of a word.
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6. What position does a suffix take? Example see Question 5.
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6. The end of a word.
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