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  2. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  3. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

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    In forming or understanding a word root, one needs a basic comprehension of the terms and the source language.The study of the origin of words is called etymology.For example, if a word was to be formed to indicate a condition of kidneys, there are two primary roots – one from Greek (νεφρός nephr(os)) and one from Latin (ren(es)).

  4. Talk : Medical prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms

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    Medical Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms and List of medical roots - These two lists duplicate much of the same information or at least item members. They each have some good points. So some thoughts: Naming or Rename? I think an article name starting with "List of" is to be preferred, but "medical roots" seems awkward.

  5. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    Cartilaginous joints also forms the growth regions of immature long bones and the intervertebral discs of the spinal column. Catheter – Is a thin tube made from medical grade materials serving a broad range of functions. Catheters are medical devices that can be inserted in the body to treat diseases or perform a surgical procedure.

  6. Neoclassical compound - Wikipedia

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    Many classical combining forms are designed to take initial or final position: autobiography has the two initial or preposed forms auto-and bio-, and one postposed form -graphy. Although most occupy one position or the other, some can occupy both: -graph- as in graphology and monograph ; -phil- as in philology and Anglophile .

  7. List of skeletal muscles of the human body - Wikipedia

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    2 1 frontalis: head, occipitofrontalis, forehead (left/right) skin of eyebrow and glabella: epicranial aponeurosis: ophthalmic artery: facial nerve [CNVII], temporal branch: wrinkles eyebrow: procerus, corrugator supercilii, and orbicularis oculi muscles [1] 2 1 orbicularis oculi, orbital part head, forehead/eyelid (left/right) frontal bone ...

  8. DNA - Wikipedia

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    Compared to B-DNA, the A-DNA form is a wider right-handed spiral, with a shallow, wide minor groove and a narrower, deeper major groove. The A form occurs under non-physiological conditions in partly dehydrated samples of DNA, while in the cell it may be produced in hybrid pairings of DNA and RNA strands, and in enzyme-DNA complexes.

  9. Denver Developmental Screening Tests - Wikipedia

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    One study evaluated the Denver II in terms of how its results matched those of a psychologist in five child-care centers: two serving the children of college-educated white parents and three serving low-income African-American children. The psychologist evaluated 104 children, of whom 18 were judged to be delayed [14]). The Denver II yielded a ...