intro into veterinary terminology

Question	Answer
The special language its practitioners use to communicate their knowledge	Terminology
Terminology language reflects what origins?	Greek and Latin
The father of medicine	Hippocrates
The process of breaking a whole into its component parts	Analysis
A unit of meaning attached to the front of a word.	Prefix
The core or foundation of the word's meaning	Root
A vowel added to the end of the root that doesn't change the meaning.	Combining vowel
The root and combining vowel together	Combining form
A unit of meaning attached to the end of a word.	Suffix
A unit of meaning attached to the prefix or suffix that modifies the root in some way.	Affix
What order do you go in to determine a term?	1. Suffix 2. Prefix 3. Root(s)
The 3 steps in analyzing a word	1. Begin at the end 2. identify and define the root(s) and affixes 3. determine the relationship between the root(s) and affixes
Latin word that means to "fasten underneath."	Suffix
a medical term with a suffix usually describes a	condition, an action, or a relationship
what turns a medical term into a diagnosis a medical procedure, or an adjective?	suffix

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	Created by Lauren Eckhoff over 6 years ago