Health Science-Medical Terminology

This course for Medical Terminology allows students to achieve comprehension of medical vocabulary appropriate to healthcare industry, medical settings, medical procedures, pharmacology, human anatomy and human physiology.  This course includes a detailed study of the origin and structure through the introduction of prefixes, suffixes. word plurals, abbreviations and symbols.  The ability to recognize, understand, spell and pronounce basic medical terms is necessary to perform well in any medical environment.  Learning how to identify medical abbreviations and decipher unfamiliar words using prefixes, word roots and suffixes is easily learned in a medical terminology course either in an in-person class environment or an online class. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to pronounce, spell, and define accepted medical terms in the healthcare profession. It will help you learn the proper terminology for major diseases and pathological conditions as well as each system of the body.