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What is the plural form of carcinoma?

Carcinomas or carcinomata

What is the singular form of cortices?

Cortex

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "es" you drop the "es" and add?

is

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "ices" you drop the "ices" and add?

ix or ex

nephr(o), ren(o)

kidney

-cidal

killing

What is the the singular form of the word larynges?

larynx

bi(o)

life, living

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "s" or "mata" you drop the "s" or "mata" and add?

ma

-eum, -ium

membrane

lact(o)

milk

or(o), stomat(o)

mouth

muscul(o), my(o)

muscle

In order to change a singular word ending in "nx" to its plural form you drop the "nx" and add?

nges

nas(o), rhin(o)

nose

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "nges" you drop the "nges" and add?

nx

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "a" you drop the "a" and add?

on

-iac

one who suffers

parasit(o)

parasite

-al, -ary, -eal, -ive, -tic

pertaining to

-ous

pertaining to or characterized by

iatr(o)

physician or treatment

-genic

produced by or in

-genesis

producing or forming

-ptosis

prolapse (sagging)

What is the plural form of the word psychosis?

psychoses

In order to change a singular word ending in "ma" to its plural dorm you drop the "ma" and add?

s or mata

-crine

secrete

aut(o)

self

cutane(o), derm(a), dermat(o)

skin

micro-

small

lith(o)

stone or calculus

-lith

stone or calculus (suffix)

-ose

sugar

-gen

that which generates

The plural form of the word thorax is?

thoraces

steth(o)

thorax (chest)

hist(o)

tissue

tonsill(o)

tonsil

trache(o)

trachea (windpipe)

-oma

tumor

strept(o)

twisted

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "a" you drop the "a" and add?

um

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "i" you drop the "i" and add?

us

angi(o)

vessel

vas(o)

vessel; ductus deferens (also called vas deferens, excretory duct of the testicle)

vir(o), virus(o)

virus

-opia

vision

intra-

within

aden(o)

gland

staphyl(o)

grapelike cluster; uvula

chir(o)

hand

cephal(o)

head

-cele

hernia (protrusion of all of part of an organ through the wall of the cavity that contains it)

In order the change a singular word ending in "us" to its plural form you drop the "um" and change it to?

i

In order to change a singular word ending in "ex" to its plural form you drop the "ex" and add?

ices

In order to change a singular word ending in "ix" to its plural form you drop the "ix" and add?

ices

idi(o)

individual

seps(o)

infection

sept(i), sept(o)

infection

-itis

inflammation

In order to change a singular word ending in "is" to its plural form you change "is" to?

es

-mania

excessive preoccupation

blephar(o)

eyelid

pyr(o)

fire

pod(o)

foot

fung(i), myc(o)

fungus

-pathy

disease

nos(o), path(o)

disease

dipl(o)

double

-ase

enzyme

What is the singular form of phalanges?

Phalanx

What is the plural form of the word protozoon?

Protozoa

What is the plural form of Vertebra?

Vertebrae

In order to change a singular word ending in "on" to its plural form you drop the "on" and add?

a

In order to change a singular word ending in "um" to its plural form you drop the "um" and change it to?

a

When writing the singular form of a word ending in "ae" you drop the "ae" and add?

a

-maniac

a person who shows excessive preoccupation

-phobia

abnormal fear

In order to change a singular word ending in "ax" to its plural form you drop the "ax" and add?

aces

In order to change a singular word ending in "a" to its plural form you drop the "a" and add?

ae

anti-

against

append(o), appendic(o)

appendix

What is the plural form of atrium?

atria

When writing the singular for of a word ending in "aces" you drop the "aces" and add?

ax

bacter(i), bacteri(o)

bacteria

gen(o)

beginning or origin

hem(o), hemat(o)

blood

oste(o)

bone

cerebr(o), encephal(o)

brain; cerebr(o) sometimes means cerebrum, the main portion of the brain

mamm(o), mast(o)

breast

What is the singular form of the word Bronchi?

bronchus

cancer(o), carcin(o)

cancer

-able, -ible

capable of, able to

col(o), Colon(o)

colon or large intestine

-ia-, iasis

condition

-osis

condition (often an abnormal condition; sometimes an increase)

-emia

condition of the blood

-ia, -ism

condition or theory