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Exercise 4
Already you have been introduced to the term pathology (pathos = disease + ology = science of, the study of). You have also probably seen the term pathogenic, composed of the root path(o) and the suffix -genic. This suffix appears at the end of many medical terms and means forming, producing or productive of.
Which of the following three words cannot be defined directly from a knowledge of the meaning of roots and suffixes?
