← Chapter 13
Medical Terminology · Chapter 13

Root Walk: Through the Eye and Into the Ear

The eye and the ear each supply a dense family of combining forms, and both families are ordered by anatomy — front to back through the eye, outer to inner through the ear. Walk them in order and the vocabulary arrives in order. Then transform the Greek and Latin plurals, and finish by flagging the eye and ear abbreviations that are no longer safe to write on a chart.

What you just placed