Verified corpus entry

tachycardia

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Morphology rail

Construction: Prefix tachy-, fast; Root card-, heart; Suffix -ia, condition; reconstructs tachycardia.

  1. 01PRE / Prefix

    tachy-

    Surface: tachy

    fast

  2. 02ROOT / Root

    card-

    Surface: card

    heart

  3. 03SUF / Suffix

    -ia

    Surface: ia

    condition

tachycardia

Verified entry

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Corpus context

Authored note

A word-part teaching record paired with bradycardia as a contrast.

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Provenance

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  1. Source 1

    Medical Terminology, 2nd ed., Chapter 1 - Identifying Word Parts

    National Library of Medicine, Open Resources for Nursing

    External link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; opens in a new tab.

  2. Source 2

    Appendix A: Word Parts and What They Mean

    National Library of Medicine, NIH

    External link to medlineplus.gov; opens in a new tab.

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