If a Physician Wanted to Put the Plural Form of the Latin

question 457

Multiple Choice

If a physician wanted to put the plural form of the Latin word vertebra in a patient's medical record, he/she would write:

• A)vertebrices.
• B)vertebrax.
• C)vertebraes.
• D)vertebrae.

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Definitions:

Chemical Change

A process that transforms substances into different substances through the rearrangement of atoms.

Kinetic Energy

The energy that an object possesses due to its motion, dependent on the object's mass and velocity.

Ions

Atoms or molecules with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.

Molecules

The smallest unit of a chemical compound that can retain the chemical properties of the compound, consisting of one or more atoms bonded together.