CLASSICS 2MT3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Elastic Fiber, Iron Overload, Arthritis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2MT3
• Professor: Stephen Russell

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Difference between: otic - adjectival ending adjectival ending of osis, pertaining to an abnormal condition, otalic adjective of ear pertaining to something involving the ear. It"s just a combining adjectival form like al instead of saying ous": it indicates the combining adjectival form for the andectival ending x-ous, for example, dermatogenosotropic: preferentially affecting. Anytime you see os" in it"s combining linking form, it is just the conneting form or the adjectival ending ous". X-om(at)/o a tumor involving _____: onc/o tumor. X-onc/us a tumor involving ______: onc/o/logy: the study of tumors, onc/o/log/ist one who specializes in tutors, carcin/oma a tumor involving cancer, carcin/omat/ous pertaining to a tumor involving cancer. We have supra, above, and cyt, cell: note: when you have a prepositional prefix often you can drop the pertaining to . Preposition + x + ending ( ic ) the ic ending really means located . Zeno"s paradox: para/nephr/oma a tumor involving something beside a kidney.