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How do these word parts fit into certain words, based on their definitions? (details inside)

Asked by poofandmook (17320points) June 29th, 2010

As suggested in the thread about anatomy, I’m making flash cards for the medical terminology prefixes and suffixes. There are a few that don’t really make sense to me though. For example:

“bio” means life, but how does that fit with “biopsy”?

“chondr” means cartilage, but how does that fit into “hypochondriac”?

Just trying to get a better grasp on these.

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