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Error: Using the Combining Form Before a Vowel Suffix

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Using the combining form before a vowel suffix produces a term that does not exist, because two vowels collide where one belongs.

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Arthr plus itis is arthritis. Arthroitis is not a word.

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Clinical software will not always flag this. The rule is the check.

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