CLASSICS 2MT3 Chapter 4: Moodle Videos (Tips & Tricks)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2MT3
• Professor: Stephen Russell

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Omphalectomy means the cutting out of the navel. Omphalectomic means pertaining to the cutting out of the navel. Omphalectomia means an abnormal condition involving the cutting out of the navel. Omphalostomize means to make an opening in the navel. Somotic means pertaining to an abnormal condition involving the body. Somitic means pertaining to the inflammation of the body. May mean pertaining to the examination of x. May mean pertaining to an instrument for examining x. Also applied to x-otomic, x-ectomic, x-ometric, & x-ographic. Plan a: assume that any adjective is referring to the more abstract of the two nouns, not to the more concrete one- i. e. the procedure or process, not the tool used for the procedure. Note: (abstract) procedure --> process --> condition (concrete) Otherwise lean toward surgical procedure if both are plausible. Meaning the formation of x & the surgical repairing of x respectively. Both are abstract terminations, thus try both when defining a term;