Skin gave medicine three roots for one organ and a matched Greek and Latin root for nearly every appendage. Pick a prefix, a root and a suffix below and the forge assembles them in front of you — keeping or dropping the combining vowel, flagging a Greek root wearing a Latin ending, and telling you whether the word you just made is one a clinician actually writes. Work the twenty build targets on the right until you stop guessing.
1 · Choose your parts
Prefix optional
Root combining form
Suffix required
2 · Where that root lives
skinderm/o, dermat/o (Gk) · cutane/o (Lat)
nailonych/o (Gk) · ungu/o (Lat)
hairtrich/o (Gk) · pil/o (Lat)
sweathidr/o (Gk) · sudor/i (Lat)
3 · What you built
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Read it backward from the suffixPick a suffix to begin.
The combining vowel is the whole game: it stays before a suffix that begins with a consonant and it drops before a suffix that begins with a vowel.