This is designed to deepen your understanding of essential word parts—prefixes, roots, and suffixes—that form the foundation of medical terminology. As you progress, you'll enhance your language mastery and fluency in the language of medicine.
Word Part Identification:
- Review the terms, prefixes, roots, and suffixes from your chapter reading,
- Identify 10 terms and highlight and define the prefixes, roots, and suffixes within each term.
Application Exercise:
- Construct 10 sentences or scenarios using the identified words or word parts.
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Book Title: Building a Medical Terminology Foundation
Authors: Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford
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Book Description: Building a Medical Terminology Foundation is an OER that focuses on breaking down medical terms into their word parts, pronouncing medical terms, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of introductory anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for health office administration and health services students in the first year of their college programs. Note: August 2024 a new edition 2e of this resource is available
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Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford
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Building a Medical Terminology Foundation Copyright © 2020 by Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Subject
Medicine and Nursing
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- Title
- Building a Medical Terminology Foundation
- Authors
- Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford
- License
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Building a Medical Terminology Foundation Copyright © 2020 by Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book and the media within may not be used in the training of large language models or otherwise be ingested into LLMs or generative AI software without the permission of Conestoga College.
- Primary Subject
- Medicine and Nursing
- Additional Subject(s)
- Medical and health informatics, Medical assistants / Physicians’ assistants, Medical study and revision guides and reference material
- Publisher
- eCampus Ontario
- Publication Date
- August 4, 2020
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