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This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
AffixMeaningOrigin Language And EtymologyExample (s)a-, an-not, without ( alpha privative )Greek ἀ-/ἀν- ( a-/an- ), not, ...analgesic, apathy, anencephalyab-from; away fromLatinabduction, abdomenabdomin-of or relating to the abdomenLatin abdōmen, abdomen, fat around the ...abdomen, abdominal-acpertaining to; one afflicted withGreek -ακός ( -akós )cardiac, celiacPeople also ask
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1. TheFreeDictionary 2. Longman English Dictionary Online Dictionaries which explain what words mean will give a clear "definition" of the word (e.g. hippopotamus : a hoofed mammal with thick skin, large mouth and short legs that lives in rivers and lakes of Africa.) A big dictionary will also give more information about the word. It will explain how it is pronounced. Usually the International Phonetic Alphabet is used for this. It will explain how the word is used. This is not a problem for...
There are also dictionaries which translate words into foreign languages. Often one volume (one book) will translate both ways; for example, half the book might be translating from English to Dutchand the other half from Dutch to English. When using a dictionary to find out how to say something in another language one has to be careful to choose th...
Dictionaries need to be updated frequently because of the way language changes. New words are often brought into a language (e.g. lots of computer terms) or words change their meanings (e.g. "gay" or "cool"). In this sense, the most famous English Dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary (or OED). Words are always being added to the OED. They ar...
Henning Bergenholtz/Sven Tarp (eds.): Manual of Specialised Lexicography. Benjamins 1995.Sandro Nielsen: The Bilingual LSP Dictionary. Gunter Narr 1994.Centre for Lexicography Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine12 title and organizational names. 50 general utility. 5 onomatopoeic (sounds like) words. 50 words about time and numbers. 1293 words used as an addendum, more words for a better understanding. 215 compound words (made up of Basic English words). 91 new words made from adding the allowed endings: -er, -ed, -ing, -ly, -s, and the prefix un-.
Some Greek words were borrowed into Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. English often received these words from French. Some have remained very close to the Greek original, e.g., lamp (Latin lampas; Greek λαμπάς ). In others, the phonetic and orthographic form has changed considerably.
