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1. Terms may be composed of a root + suffix.

   Medical Term	Root	Meaning	Suffix	Meaning
   carcinoma	carcin(o)	crab	oma	tumor
   sarcoma	sarc(o)	flesh	oma	tumor
   cerebral	cerebr	brain	al	pertaining to

2. Terms may be composed of a prefix + a root.

   Medical Term	Prefix	Meaning	Root	Meaning
   neoplasm	neo	new	plasm	growth, formation
   biped	bi	two	ped	foot
   dysfunction	dys	difficult, painful	function	normal action

3. Terms may be composed of a prefix + a root + a suffix.

   Medical Term	Prefix	Meaning	Root	Meaning	Suffix	Meaning
   hypoglycemia	hypo	under	glyc	sugar	emia	blood
   encephalitis	en	in	cepahl	head	itis	inflammation of
   pericarditis	peri	around	card	heart	itis	inflammation of

4. Some medical terms are composed of two roots.

   Medical Term	Root	Meaning	Root	Meaning
   biostatistics	bio	life	statistics	numerical facts
   erythroblast	erythr(o)	red	blast	germ cell
   microfilm	micr(o)	small	film

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