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Question. about medical terminology ..... i know that a medical term has to have at least one root; what about words like anemia; leukemia ? Leuk and a/an are prefixes means white & without ....... emia a suffix means blood ......... so where is the root here?
Answer:
Becki Woodhams wrote: Leuk/o is a root word; but anemia is a GREAT example. Not every word has a root; there are some exceptions and anemia is one of them Every word has to have a suffix though.
Question. about medical terminology ..... i know that a medical term has to have at least one root; what about words like anemia; leukemia ? Leuk and a/an are prefixes means white & without ....... emia a suffix means blood ......... so where is the root here?
Answer:
Becki Woodhams wrote: Leuk/o is a root word; but anemia is a GREAT example. Not every word has a root; there are some exceptions and anemia is one of them Every word has to have a suffix though.
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