1. The specialized language of a technical job or trade
gastrointestinal…
Word Dissections
Objective: To identify and apply roots, suffixes and prefixes associated with the study of the human body
Bell work:
“Jargon”, “lingo”, and “mumbo jumbo” all have a similar meaning. What do you think it is?
The specialized language of a technical job or trade
cardiomyopathy…
what am I talking about…?
microcephaly…
hydrolysis…
microcephaly…
hydrolysis…
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2. What do you know?
Let’s see how much you know about the human body! Take the Human Body Pre-Assessment and match the body system with its function. Then provide an example of organs found in each system.
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3. Word Dissections
Many medical terms are about the different parts of the human body. These words are often made by Latin or Greek roots that are combined with prefixes and suffixes. If you understand the root words, prefixes, and suffixes, you can understand the whole word used by doctors when they are speaking their "medical mumbo jumbo."
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4. “Root Words”
So, if “lysis” means to “break apart”, then based on the chart, the word dialysis would mean to “pass through completely and break apart”. A dialysis machine cleans the waste out of the blood of people whose kidneys are unable to function properly. Similarly, someone with polycephaly based on the chart would have “many heads”. So put your “cephal” to work and see if you can solve the Medical Mumbo Jumbo on the “dors” of your sheet!
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