Description
This self-paced course will provide you with a working vocabulary of medical terminology. Furthermore, it will provide you with a systematic approach to medical terminology that will make it possible for you to understand terms that you have never seen before. You will learn how to understand medical terms through their parts namely, word roots, prefixes, suffixes, and combining vowels and learn how these parts are put together to build terms, as well as how to understand terms by analyzing their parts. The course will cover terminology for the following areas:
Prefixes, Suffixes, and Abbreviations
Terms Involving the Body as a Whole
Integumentary System
Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
Blood and Immune Systems
Respiratory System
Nervous System and Mental Health
Sensory Systems
Musculoskeletal System