medical_terinologymedical_terminology.ppt

NURS 1103 or HLSC 2613 Medical Terminology 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. 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. 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 When reading for pleasure, you may be able to understand an unknown word because of the context in which it is used and because you have some familiarity with the general subject. In reading documents with a lot of medical terminology, you may find nothing familiar about the terms. It will seem like a foreign language. In this lesson you will discover how to understand a new medical term by looking at the word parts. For example when you look at the word nonsense, you know that non- means not or does not, and sense means to be understandable and consistent with reason. So you can put the two meanings together and know that nonsense means something that is not understandable or not consistent with reason. Nonsense means something that does not make sense. In order to analyze medical words, you need to understand the three main elements that are used to form words: prefixes, root words, and suffixes. There are many terms to each of these elements and it would be im