Most medical terms can be broken down into one or more word parts. There are a total of four different word parts, and any given medical term may contain one, some, or all of these parts. We will classify these word parts as: (1) roots, (2) prefixes, (3) suffixes, and (4) lin...
For the descriptive convenience, a constituent element common to the terminal equipments 20A and 20B at the points A and B will be referred to as, e.g., an image pickup apparatus 600 by omitting suffixes A and B which are added to discriminate between the two points. A description of ...
In English, -ia was often used to make Latin-root words or Greek-root words function as nouns. eg. 'pneumon' was the old Greek word for lung. To talk about it in medical terms, English doctors and scientists used to use Latin grammar and rules. pneumon + ia ≈ something about lungs ...