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M1 Quiz: Combining Vowels and Combining Forms

14 points (.25 per cell)

In this quiz you will test your skill in determining whether a term contains a combining vowel. Note that all the terms have a root, and therefore they have a combining form, but only 7 of the 14 terms has a combining vowel. Complete the grid indicating root, combining form, suffix and indicate whether a combining vowel is present in the term.

Term	Root	Combining form	Suffix	Is a combining vowel present in this term?
Example 1: cardiologist	cardi	Cardi/o	-logist	yes
Example 2: gastritis	gastr	Gastr/o	-itis	no
blepharoplasty	blephar	Blephar/o	plasty	yes
esophagoscopy	esophag	Esophag/o	scopy	yes
iriditis	irid	Irid/o	itis	no
leukemia	leuk	Leuk/o	emia	no
mammography	mamm	Mamm/o	graphy	yes
cerebral	cerebr	Cerebr/o	al	Type text here.
pulmonology	pulmon	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
ketonuria	keton	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
lithotomy	lith	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
meningiocele	mening	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
myxedema	myx	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
prostatectomy	prostate	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
hepatoma	hepat	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.
tracheostomy	trach	Type text here.	Type text here.	Type text here.