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Medical Terminology · Chapter 12

Vulva to Ovary: The Gyn Term Builder

Almost nothing in the female reproductive vocabulary has to be memorised as a whole word — every term is a prefix, one to three combining forms and a suffix, snapped together by one rule about the combining vowel. Pick parts from the banks and watch the term assemble letter by letter, with each o kept, dropped or hyphenated in front of you. Then switch to Build a term and construct the word from its definition alone.

Prefix optional · one at a time

Combining forms tap in order — up to three

Suffix optional · one at a time

Your term

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Try hyster/o + -ectomy, then swap the suffix for -otomy and read what changed.
prefix combining form combining vowel suffix