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Use textbook, reference book, or web sites to define each term.

Suggested reference books: Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms by Donald Borror

Quick Study reference guide, Medical Terminology the Basics by Corinne Linton

For each week listed above, you will be responsible for the 30 terms listed under that week and any terms previously learned. Testing on this material will be in the form of pop quizzes in which you will be expected to provide the definition for a term or for a combination of terms.

Example: physio – the nature of function of

physiology – physio + ology – the study of function