Which Statement Is NOT True About Suffixes

question 73

Multiple Choice

Which statement is NOT true about suffixes?

• A)A suffix is a group of letters
• B)A suffix can have more than one meaning
• C)A suffix can appear anywhere in the medical term
• D)An occasional medical term can have two suffixes
• E)If a suffix starts with a vowel, no combining vowel is needed

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Definitions:

Metamorphic Rocks

Rocks that have been transformed from an original state into a new texture or structure by heat, pressure, and/or fluid activity.

Solidification

The process of a liquid becoming solid, especially upon cooling, as in the formation of igneous rock from cooled magma or lava.

Erosion

The wearing away of soil, sediment, and rock through the removal of material by running water, waves, currents, ice, wind, and gravity.

Weathering

Physical disintegration and chemical decomposition of rocks, sediment, and soil due to exposure to water and other chemical, atmospheric, and biological agents.