1. MEDICALTERMINOLOGY Ginger C. Meeker HCA 220 Dr. James
McKinney
2. A TRAININGPRESENTATION FOR ALL NEW HIRES
3. BUILDING MEDICAL WORDS Medical words are like puzzles There
are three different kinds of word parts. Combining forms, suffixes,
and prefixes
4. USING WORD PARTS Prefixes (P): used at the beginning of a
medical term. Describe, modify or limit the term Not all medical
terms use prefixes Examples: an- without anesthesia Endo-
innermost, within endotracheal Poly- many, much polyneuropathy
5. USING WORD PARTSSuffixes (S): the word ending Changes the
meaning of a wordyou can make a word a noun, verb, or adjective All
medical terms have a suffix Examples: -ly going toward distally -al
pertaining to internal -ic pertaining to hypogastric -logy the
study of cardiology -ics knowledge, practice orthopedics
6. USING WORD PARTS Combining Form: the basic meaning of the
medical term. Gives the word its medical meaning. Medical terms can
contain more than one combining form. Examples: pulmon/o- lung
pulmonology cost/o- rub costal vertebr/o- vertebra vertebral lumb/o
lower back lumbar
7. USING WORD PARTSCombining Vowel Usually an o Used between
word roots or when a suffix begins with a consonant. Examples:
Neurology neur/o + -logy Osteocyte oste/o + -cyte
8. DECODING MEDICAL TERMS Reading a medical term is a
step-by-step process. Start with the suffix and define it Next the
prefix and define it Then, go to the combining form and define
Lastly, define the word as a whole
10. PRONUNCIATION Sometimes seeing theactual picture, such as
thisskeleton, helps in thepronunciation of a medicalword. Words
associated witha skeleton are bones, cartilage,joint, marrow,
etc.
11. MEDICAL LANGUAGE A living language You are challenged to
listen, speak, write, watch, respond, examine, think, and make
connections. (Turley, S. p. xiii)
12. THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE There is no recognized discipline
called medical linguistics, but perhaps there ought to be one. The
language of medicine offers intriguing challenges both to medical
historians and to linguists. Classical scholars have analyzed the
contents and language of the most ancient medical records in great
detail, but the later development of medical terminology has
received much less attention. (Wulff, MD, H. p.1)
13. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY Important to every outlet within the
medical field. The communication pathway for all medical
professionals. Falsification or wrong use of medical terms can be
costly not only for the patient but everyone involved.
14. REFERENCES Turley, S. (2007). Preface. In Pearson Prentice
Hall (Ed.), Medical Language (pp. xiii). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson Education, Inc.. (2011). Yahoo! Image Search Results.
Retrieved
fromhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701-s&va=nervous+system
Right Health. (2011). Righthealth.com. Retrieved
fromhttp://www.righthealth.com/topic/Image_Of_Muscle?p=l&as=msn&ac=529&kgl=38687204
15. REFERENCES CONTD Wulff, MD., H. (2004). The language of
medicine. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, v.97(4), 1.
Retrieved from http://www.ncbi
.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079361/