The special language its practitioners use to communicate their knowledge

Terminology language reflects what origins?

The father of medicine

The process of breaking a whole into its component parts

A unit of meaning attached to the front of a word.

The core or foundation of the word's meaning

A vowel added to the end of the root that doesn't change the meaning.

The root and combining vowel together

A unit of meaning attached to the end of a word.

A unit of meaning attached to the prefix or suffix that modifies the root in some way.

What order do you go in to determine a term?

The 3 steps in analyzing a word

Latin word that means to "fasten underneath."

a medical term with a suffix usually describes a

what turns a medical term into a diagnosis a medical procedure, or an adjective?