Medical Terminology Understanding Medical Terms, Exams of Public Health

Download Medical Terminology Understanding Medical Terms and more Exams Public Health in PDF only on Docsity! Component 3-Terminology in Healthcare and Public Health Settings . Unit 1-Understanding Medical Words Lecture 1a- Word Roots This material was developed by The University of Alabama at Birmingham, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number 1U24OC000023. Medical Terminology • Studying medical terminology is like learning a new language • Basic rules for building terms will help you both build and translate many different . words • You must be able to put words together or build words from their parts – Like putting together the pieces of a puzzle Component 3/ Unit 1-1a 2 Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 Understanding Medical Terms • It is impossible to memorize all of the thousands of medical terms • You can figure out the meaning of many different words by analyzing the word . parts – Word roots – Prefixes – Suffixes – Combining forms Component 3/ Unit 1-1a 3 Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 Component 3/Unit 1-1a Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 1 Basic Word Parts • Word root is the general meaning of the term • Prefixes are added to the beginning of the word . • Suffixes are added to the ending of the word • Combining vowels connect other word parts Component 3/ Unit 1-1a 4 Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 Basic Word Parts Word Part • Word root • Prefix S ffi Example (Meaning) • cardiology (study of the heart) • tachycardia (condition of a fast heart) diti (i fl ti f th h t) . • u x • Combining form • car s n amma on o e ear • cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle) Component 3/ Unit 1-1a 5 Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 Word Root • Core part of the term • Provides general meaning of the word • Usually gives a body part . oste = bone cardi = heart rhino = nose Component 3/ Unit 1-1a 6 Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 Component 3/Unit 1-1a Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 2.0/Spring 2011 2