Author Question: An overwhelming impulse to steal things that have little or no value is known as pyromania. ... (Read 65 times)

sabina · **on:** Jun 27, 2018

An overwhelming impulse to steal things that have little or no value is known as pyromania.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

List three characteristics of a combining form.

What will be an ideal response?

patma1981 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

FALSE
Explanation: This describes kleptomania. Pyromania is deliberately setting fires.

Answer to Question 2

(Only required to give three of the five listed here.)
A combining form is a word part that is the foundation of a word.
A combining form gives the word its main medical meaning.
A combining form has a root, a forward slash, a combining vowel, and a final hyphen.
Most medical words contain a combining form.
Sometimes a medical word contains two or more combining forms.