When building medical words, what should you do when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel to a combining form?
A) Drop the vowel in the suffix and keep the vowel in the combining form.
B) Keep the vowel in the suffix and drop the vowel in the combining form.
C) Keep the vowel in the suffix and keep the vowel in the combining form.
D) Drop the vowel in the suffix and drop the vowel in the combining form.
B
Explanation: A) The suffix vowel should be kept rather than the combining form vowel.
B) Correct.
C) Keeping both vowels would result in words with incorrect double vowels.
D) Dropping both vowels would result in words with no combining vowel.
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