1. Medical Terminology
NURS 1103 or HLSC 2613

2. Welcome Course Faculty
Larry Hurst

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

4. Medical Terminology Mispronunciations
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.

5. Course Description
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.

6. Course Objectives 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. Lessons, continued
15. Nervous System
16. Special Senses

10. A Busy Course!
Are you feeling like a lot of information is about to come your way?
The answer is YES.

11. Chapter 1 Basic Elements of Medical Word
Now, lets begin
Chapter 1
Basic Elements of Medical Word

12. Medical Dictionary Use
Look Up Unfamiliar Terms

13. Word Roots (WR) Usually derived form Greek or Latin
Frequently indicates a body part
Most medical terms have one or more word roots

14. Examples of Word Roods

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

16. Combining Forms Examples
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

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

18. Examples of Suffix
Arthr/o -centesis Arthrocentesis joint puncture puncture of a joint
throac/o -tomy Thoracotomy chest incision incision of the chest
gastr/o -megaly Gastromegaly stomach enlargement enlargement of the stomach

19. Prefixes 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

20. Examples of Prefix A- mast -ia without breast condition
hyper therm ia
excessive heat condition
intra muscul ar in muscle relating to

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

22. Basic Rule Two
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 word colon/o + scope = colonscope osteo/ o/ chondr/ itis = osteochondritis

23. Defining Medical Words
First, define the suffix or ending
Second, define the prefix, or beginning
Third, define the middle

24. Pronunciation Guidelines
Ae and oe
c and g
e and es ch I pn ps

25. End of Chapter One