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NURS 1103 or HLSC 2613

Medical Terminology

WelcomeCourse Faculty

Larry Hurst

• New students to Medical Terminology often bewildered by strange spelling and pronunciation.
• Approximately 75% of Medical Terms are based on either Greek or Latin

• Artery - 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 you’re out.
• Tablet - A small table.

• A study of physiological systems approach to provide principles of medical word building. Provides medical vocabulary including anatomy, physiology, systems, diagnostic testing and pharmacology. This course is appropriate for health care administration, health science students such as nursing, dental hygiene, paramedics, and physical therapy assisting; as well as court reporting and medical transcriptionist students.

• Apply basic principles of medical word building.
• Correctly pronounce medical terms.
• Define common medical terms.
• Relate common medical terms to human anatomy and physiology; common disease states, pharmacological categories and diagnostic tests.
• Identify the medical terminology in medical record reports.

• 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

• 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

• 15. Nervous System
• 16. Special Senses

• Are you feeling like a lot of information is about to come your way?
• The answer is YES.

Now, lets begin

Chapter 1

Basic Elements of Medical Word

Look Up Unfamiliar Terms

• Usually derived form Greek or Latin
• Frequently indicates a body part
• Most medical terms have one or more word roots

• Combining Form (CF) is a Word Root (WR) plus a vowel, usually an “o”
• Usually indicates a body part

• Cardi/ + o = cardi/o heart
• gastr/ + o = gastr/o stomach
• hepat/ + o = hepat/o liver
• nephr/ + o = nephr/o kidney
• oste/ + o = oste/o bone

• Word Ending
• Suffix usually indicates a procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech
• Usually derived from Greek or Latin

• 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

• Word element located at the beginning of a word
• Changes the meaning of the word
• Usually indicates a number, time, position, direction, color, or sense of negation

• A- mast -ia without breast condition
• hyper- therm -ia

excessive heat condition

• intra- muscul -ar in muscle relating to

• A WR (word root) is used before a suffix that begins with a vowel.Scler/ + osis = sclerosis

• A combining vowel is used to link a WR to a suffix that begins with a consonant and to link a WR to another WR to form a compound wordcolon/o + scope = colonscopeosteo/ o/ chondr/ itis = osteochondritis

• First, define the suffix or ending
• Second, define the prefix, or beginning
• Third, define the middle

• Ae and oe
• c and g
• e and es
• ch
• I
• pn
• ps