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Category: Medical
Date: 06 Aug 2006
Time: 21:38:58 -0500
Remote Name: 68.11.181.191
Remote User: BRSCR\Mark
A question was asked the other day about the use of the letter "O" as combining vowel between a root word and a suffix. Why do some medical terms not use an "O" to combine the root and suffix? For example, Hemat/o/logy uses the "O" combining vowel. Wheras Gastr/ic does not.