Chapter 4 Medical Terminology

Discrepancies in the classification of word elements

  • in medical terminology texts sometimes vary in the way they classify the word elements of medical terms.

  • for example, the word element erythr, which means “red”, is classified as a word root.


Unique Plural ending

  • Testprep Aleart: a medical term ends in nx how should the plural ending of this term be written

    • b; nges