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WelcomeCourse Faculty

Sheila Tolentino


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Main Objective:

Learn Medical Terminology

New students to MedicalTerminology often bewildered

by strange spelling andpronunciation.

Approximately 75% of MedicalTerms are based on eitherGreek or Latin


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Medical Terminology

MispronunciationsArtery- The study of fine paintings.

Barium

- What you do when CPR fails.

Benign

- What you are after you be eight.

Coma

- A punctuation mark.

Morbid - A higher offer.

Urine

- opposite of youre out.

Tablet

- A small table.


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Course Description

A studyof physiological systemsapproach toprovide principles of medical word building.Provides medical vocabulary includinganatomy, physiology, systems, diagnostic

testing and pharmacology. This course isappropriate for health care administration,health science students such as nursing,dental hygiene, paramedics, and physical

therapy assisting; as well as court reportingand medical transcriptionist students.


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Course Objectives

Apply basic principles of medical wordbuilding.

Correctly pronounce medical terms.

Define common medical terms. Relate common medical terms to human

anatomy and physiology; common diseasestates, pharmacological categories anddiagnostic tests.

Identify the medical terminology in medicalrecord reports.


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16 Lessons

1. Basic Elements of a Medical Word

2. Suffixes: Surgical, Diagnostic, etc

3. Suffixes: Adjective, Noun,Diminutive

4. Prefixes

5. Body Structure

6. Integumentary System

7. Gastrointestinal System


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Lessons, continued

8. Respiratory System

9. Cardiovascular System

10. Blood, Lymph, and Immune Systems

11. Musculoskeletal System

12. Genitourinary System 13. Female Reproductive System

14. Endocrine System


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Lessons, continued

15. Nervous System

16. Special Senses


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A Busy Course!

Are you feeling likea lot of information

is about to comeyour way?

The answer is

YES.


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Now, lets begin

Chapter 1

Basic Elements of Medical Word


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Medical Dictionary Use

Look Up Unfamiliar Terms


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Word Roots (WR)

Usually derived form Greek or Latin

Frequently indicates a body part

Most medical terms have one or moreword roots


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Examples of Word Roods

Greek Word Word Root

Kardia (heart) Cardi

Gaster (stomach) Gastr

Hepar (liver) Hepat

Nephros (kidney) Nephr

Osteon (bone) oste


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Combining Form (CF) is a Word Root

(WR) plus a vowel, usually an oUsually indicates a body part

Combining Forms (CF)


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Suffixes

Word Ending

Suffix usually indicates a procedure,

condition, disease, or part of speech

Usually derived from Greek or Latin


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Examples of Suffix

Arthr/o -centesis Arthrocentesisjoint puncture puncture of a joint

throac/o -tomy Thoracotomychest incision incision of the chest

gastr/o -megaly Gastromegalystomach enlargement enlargement of the

stomach


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Prefixes

Word element located at the beginningof a word

Changes the meaning of the word

Usually indicates a number, time,position, direction, color, or sense of

negation


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Examples of Prefix

A- mast -iawithout breast condition

hyper- therm -iaexcessive heat condition

intra- muscul -arin muscle relating to


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Basic Rule One

A WR (word root) is used before asuffix that begins with a vowel.

Scler/ + osis = sclerosis


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Basic Rule Two

A combining vowel is used to link aWR to a suffix that begins with a

consonant and to link a WR to anotherWR to form a compound wordcolon/o + scope = colonscope

osteo/ o/ chondr/ itis =osteochondritis


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Defining Medical Words

First, define the suffix or ending

Second, define the prefix, or beginning

Third, define the middle


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Pronunciation Guidelines

Ae and oe

c and g

e and es

ch

I

pn

ps


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End of Chapter One

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