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18 Cards in this Set
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Greek Words
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Disease, Conditions, Diagnosis, Treatment
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Latin Words
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Describing body structures
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Nephr (o) / renal
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Kidney
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Plural for is ending
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es, sometimes we drop is and add ides
diagnoses, prognoses, psychoses |
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Plural um
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a
atria, ilea, speta, bacteria |
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Plural us
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i
aveoli, bacilli, bronchi Sometimes we drop us and add era or ora. viscus to viscera and corpus to corpora. |
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Plural a
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ae
vertebrae, patellae |
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Plural ix
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ices
appendices, cervices |
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Plural ax
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aces
thoraces |
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Plural ma
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s or mata
carcinomas or carcinomata |
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Plural on
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a
protozoon to protozoa spermatozoon to spermatozoa |
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Plural nx
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nges
phalanx to phalanges, larynx to laryngesdf |
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Plural of words ending in "s" "ch" or "sh"
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add es
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Plural for words ending in y, preceded by a constant.
capillary, extremity |
Change y to i and add es.
capillaries, extremities. |
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Unmarked vowel ending a syllable "an open syllable"
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Long, like in ray
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Unmarked vowel in a syllable ending in a consonant "a closed syallable"
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short. examples are had, bed in, not and rug.
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A long vowel in a closed syllable is indicated by a:
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macron, a line above it. Again it is pronounced as a long vowell.
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A short vowel that ends or itself constitutes a syllable is indicated by a:
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Breve. This is a small u above the vowel to show that it is short.
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