1. Welcome to Medical Terminology
Nena Scott, MSEd, RHIA, CCS, CCSP

2. Course Outcomes
Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
Define the word elements of a medical term.
Formulate proper definitions of presented medical terms.
Compose accurate medical terms, based on established medical terminology guidelines.
Demonstrate the singular and plural forms of medical terminology.
Interpret simulated medical reports using medical terminology.
Demonstrate the ability to translate medical terminology and information into layman’s terms for non-medical personnel or patients.

3. General Information Due dates for each unit is located on the syllabus
Weekly unit assignments will include
Seminar
Discussion Board
Unit Quizzes
Unit 5, and 8 Projects
A weekly announcements will be posted on Wednesday that will outline the weeks requirements

4. Contact Information
Kaplan Address:
Course/Seminar Day and Time (ET)
Wednesday, 10:00pm – 11:00pm EST

5. How to Label Your Work
Projects: Please label your projects: username-project-unit#.doc. For example, a student named Tina Allen would name her file TAllen-Anatomical Terminology-Unit 3.doc.
Seminar Option 2: Please label your seminars: username-seminar-unit#.doc (for example, TAllen-Seminar-Unit 3.doc)
Subject Lines: Please start your subject lines in correspondence with Course & section username: SUBJECT_OF_MESSAGE (for example, HS111-12AU-TAllen: Question regarding project)

6. Projects Templates for projects are located in DocSharing
A description of all projects can be found under unit 3, 5, and 8 in the course
Project should be completed in Microsoft Word and submitted in the drop box.
Projects should be completed using APA style formatting

7. Seminar
Option 1
Purpose – interact with class mates, review important points of each lesson, answer questions and concerns of students.
Expectations - participate in discussion, arrive on time and stay the whole hour.
Grading rubric used to assign grade
Option 2
Takes place of one hour seminar
Tougher grading criteria – grading rubric used to assign grade

8. Discussion
Please do not work ahead on the discussion board because staying together on the discussion will help everyone in the learning process.
Your initial discussion board post is due by Saturday night
Posting the initial post early in the week will help you because you will need to respond to two post to receive the total 35 points.
Also, posting early in the week will give me time to respond and in my response I try to give you a challenge question and your response to my question will count as one of the required responses.
It is important to have quality discussion board post to enhance learning.
Make sure you utilize spell check and list all references.

9. Unit 1 – Discussion Board Topic
What techniques have you used in the past to learn new vocabulary terms, and how do you think these techniques will apply to this course?

10. Unit 2 – Discussion Topic
Have you ever thought of how you would describe everyday positions using medical terminology? Unit 2's reading introduces you to the world of patient positioning, body quadrants, etc.
Here is your chance to get a bit of practice...
Think of an everyday position or movement, such as scratching your forehead or sitting with your hands in your lap. Now, describe that position, using medical terms.
Your classmates will need to "translate" your position - and you can help them as they try!
Example: Your post: My distal phalanges are resting on my scalp overlaying my frontal bone or my distal phalanges are in contact with the skin over my supraorbital ridges.

11. Unit 1 - Seminar Topic Option 1: Synchronous
Participate in a synchronous Live Seminar at the designated weekly time.
Come to the Seminar this week prepared to discuss any questions you have about this course, the assignments, or the syllabus.
Option 2: Asynchronous Discussion
Your responses should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs. Your response to each question should be words in length.
What questions do you have about our course , assignments or expectations presented in Unit 1?

12. Unit 2 - Seminar Topic Option 1: Synchronous
Participate in a synchronous Live Seminar at the designated weekly time.
For the Unit 2 Seminar, come prepared to discuss what problems might occur in the use of abbreviations in medical communications.
Option 2: Asynchronous Discussion
Your responses should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs. Your response to each question should be words in length.
Discuss what problems might occur in the use of abbreviations in medical communications. What situations have you experienced like this? What can you do to avoid these kinds of problems?

13. Chapter 1
Introduction to Word Parts

14. OBJECTIVES Identify and define the four word parts
Identify and define a combining form
Analyze and define medical terms
Build medical terms for given definitions

15. Understand the Content of Chapter 1 Before Moving on to Chapter 2
Chapter 1 is the most important chapter in the text because it is here that you are introduced to word parts—word roots, prefixes, suffixes, and combining vowels—and the rules for combining them to build medical terms.
You will use this information in each of the subsequent chapters to analyze, build, define, and spell terms built from word parts

16. Medicine Has a Language of Its Own
Current medical vocabulary includes terms built from Greek and Latin word parts, eponyms, acronyms, and terms from modern language

17. 4 Word Parts Word Root: Fundamental meaning of a medical term
Prefix: Attached to beginning of a medical term to modify its meaning
Suffix: Attached to end of a medical term to modify its meaning
Combining Vowel: Used to ease pronunciation - usually an “o” (e, i, or u)

18. Examples Word Roots: arthr: joint hepat: liver ven: vein oste: bone
Prefixes: intra-: within sub-: under
Suffixes: -itis: inflammation -ic: pertaining to
-ous: pertaining to -pathy: disease
Combining vowel: o

19. Combining Form Word Root + Combining Vowels
Examples: arthr/o hepat/o ven/o oste/o
Examples of word parts and combining vowel in use
P WR S P WR S WR CV WR S
sub/hepat/ic intra/ven/ous oste/o/arthr/itis

20. Some Basic Rules All medical terms have at least one word root
Not all medical terms have a prefix, suffix, or combining vowel
Combining vowels are used to connect word roots or word root and suffix
When a suffix begins with a vowel, the combining vowel is not used
Example: arthritis (“o”)

21. Some Basic Rules (cont’d)
When connecting two word roots, a combining vowel is usually used even if vowels are present at the junction
Example: oste/o/arthr/itis
Usually medical terms are defined by starting at the end of the term and going back to the beginning
Example: oste/o/arthr/itis─inflammation
of the bone and joints

22. Some Basic Rules (cont’d)
A few terms are more easily and accurately defined by starting at the beginning of the term.
Example: melan/oma
melan = black
-oma = tumor

23. Word Parts for Practice
Word Roots:
(Comb. Forms)
arthr/o: joint
hepat/o: liver
ven/o: vein
osteo: bone
Combining Vowel: o
Prefixes:
intra-: within
sub-: under
Suffixes:
-itis: inflammation
-ic: pertaining to
-ous: pertaining
-pathy: disease

24. Analyze and Define arthritis intravenous osteitis osteoarthritis
subhepatic
osteopathy
arthropathy
hepatitis

25. Building Medical Terms
inflammation of joints
pertaining to within a vein
inflammation of the bone
inflammation of the bone and joint
pertaining to under the liver
disease of the bone
disease of the joint
inflammation of the liver

26. Questions & After Seminar
Review the rubrics for grading and let me know if you have questions
Contact me:
Kaplan -
Within our course - Post questions under the Course Questions section under Course Home
Questions?