Orthopedic Affixes

-scopy

oste/o-

therap/o-

ped/o-

orth/o-

A word part that forms the basis of a word with an added vowel that can be joined with other words, roots, or suffixes to form a new word.

Together, prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms are called...

A word part that is added at the end of the word to create a derivative of a word (adverb, adjective, noun, verb)

A word part that comes before a root word to change its meaning

-ologist