OBJECTIVES:

Enable students to learn medical

terminology
This is accomplished by:
1. Identifying, breaking and define
word parts (prefix, suffix, word root,
and combining form)
2. Describing the structure to each
body system

MEDICAL WORDS are ACTION-FILLED

MEDICAL WORDS are LOVE AND

FEAR

3. Spell medical words correctly.

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

1. The language of medicine

2. Latin or Greek origin

3. It gives accurate representation of a

disease process or medical procedure
MEDICAL LANGUAGE is COLORFUL

Cyan/ otic - BLUE

Xanth/ ochromic YELLOW
Erythr/ ocyte RED
Eosin/ ophilia WHITE

MEDICAL LANGUAGE is MUSICAL

Borborygmi Rumbling (bowels)

Singultus Hiccup
Sibilant Hissing or whistling
Susurrus- Mumble or whisper

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico
volcanoconiosis
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Hysterosalphingooophorectomy
Hepatosplenomegaly

Ped/o/philia - Fondness to
children
Necr/o/philia Fondness of dead
body
Agora/phobia Fear of
marketplace
Xen/o/phobia Fear of stranger
Dips/o/mania Madness in
craving for alcohol; thirst

WORD PARTS
Medical words can be broken down
into
WORD PARTS OR BASIC
COMPONENTS
1.
2.
3.
4.

Prefixes
Suffixes
Roots (word roots)
Linking or combining vowel
PREFIXES

MEDICAL WORDS are INTERESTING

Mastic/ ation - Chewing

Mictur/ ition - Voiding Urine
Ambul/ ation - Movement
Rhin/o/rrhea Discharge from
the nose

Is a short word part added

BEFORE a root to modify its
meaning?
Prefixes are indicated or
specified by a dash after the
prefix
EXAMPLE: PrePrefix usually indicates a
number, time, position or
negation