Question 17 • 2026-2027 EDGE Human Anatomy and Physiology A
Medical terms are commonly built from a root, which carries the main meaning, with a prefix placed before it and a suffix placed after it. For example, in “hypoglycemia,” “hypo-” comes before the root and “-emia” comes after it. This matches the choice stating that prefixes are added to the beginning of the root and suffixes to its end.
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