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Medical Terminology · Chapter 8

The Blood Term Forge

Blood keeps two equal roots at the front — hem/o and hemat/o — and hangs -emia at the back, and the combining vowel between them lives or dies depending on one letter. Snap a prefix, one or two combining forms and a suffix together and watch the o survive or vanish. Then switch to Challenge and build the term a chart would actually use.
Prefix · optional
Combining form · the root idea
Second combining form · optional
Suffix · required, and it decides the vowel