THE PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LATIN PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES IN CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH
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Latin prefixes and suffixes form one of the most durable and semantically powerful components of medical terminology, particularly within the domain of clinical diagnostics. Their function extends far beyond linguistic ornamentation; they serve as structural and conceptual tools that allow clinicians to identify pathological processes, anatomical locations, disease severity, and functional abnormalities with precision. This study investigates the practical significance of Latin morphological elements in diagnostic reasoning, focusing on how prefixes such as hyper-, hypo-, peri-, infra-, inter-, and sub- and suffixes such as -itis, -oma, -algia, -pathy, and -emia contribute to the interpretive frameworks used in contemporary clinical evaluation.
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