GREEK-LATIN TERM-ELEMENTS IN CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY

This article offers an overview of the system of word-formation in clinical terminology. It is obvious that a basic understanding of Greek-Latin term-elements increases the productivity of learning and comfort while using clinical terminology. A knowledge of the meaning of term-elements enables the students to thoroughly analyse a given medical term in terms of its component parts. The main part of this article consists of examples containing the most common prefixes, suffixes and roots