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- 1. Chapter 1 Basic Word Structure
- 2. Chapter Goals • Identify basic objectives to guide your study of the medical language. • Divide medical words into their component parts. • Learn the meanings of basic combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes of the medical language. • Use these combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes to build medical words.
- 3. Objectives in Studying The Medical Language • Analyze words by dividing them into component parts. • Relate the medical terms to the structure and function of the human body. • Be aware of spelling and pronunciation problems
- 5. Word Analysis (cont’d) HEMAT/O/LOGY root suffix combining vowel hemat means blood -logy means process of study
- 6. Word Analysis (cont’d) Important elements: Root: foundation of the term Suffix: word ending Prefix: word beginning Combining vowel: vowel (usually o) that links the root to the suffix or the root to another root and aids pronunciation Combining form: combination of the root and the combining vowel
- 7. Word Analysis (cont’d ELECTR/O/CARDI/O/GRAM root root suffix combining vowels electr means electricity cardi means heart -gram means record
- 8. Word Analysis (cont’d) THREE General Rules: 1. Read the meaning of medical terms from the suffix back to the beginning of the term and across 2. Drop the combining vowel (usually o) before a suffix beginning with a vowel: gastritis not “gastroitis” 3. Keep the combining vowel between two roots: gastroenterology not “gastrenterology”
- 10. Chapter Goals • Define new suffixes and review those presented in previous chapters. • Gain practice in word analysis by using these suffixes with combining forms to build and understand terms. • Identify the functions of the different types of blood cells in the body.
- 11. Chapter Goals • Define new suffixes and review those presented in previous chapters. • Gain practice in word analysis by using these suffixes with combining forms to build and understand terms. • Identify the functions of the different types of blood cells in the body.
- 12. Suffixes and Terminology NOUN SUFFIXES -algia pain -cele hernia -centesis surgical puncture to remove fluid -coccus (plural: berry-shaped bacterium -cocci) -cyte cell Suffix Meaning
- 13. Suffixes and Terminology (cont’d) NOUN SUFFIXES -dynia pain -ectomy excision, removal, resection -emia blood condition -genesis condition of producing, forming -gram record Suffix Meaning
- 14. Suffixes and Terminology (cont’d) NOUN SUFFIXES -graph instrument for recording -graphy process of recording -itis inflammation -logy study of -lysis breakdown, destruction, separation Suffix Meaning
- 15. Suffixes and Terminology (cont’d) NOUN SUFFIXES -malacia softening -megaly enlargement -oma tumor, mass, collection of fluid -opsy to view -osis condition, usually abnormal Suffix Meaning
- 16. Suffixes and Terminology (cont’d) NOUN SUFFIXES -malacia softening -megaly enlargement -oma tumor, mass, collection of fluid -opsy to view -osis condition, usually abnormal Suffix Meaning
- 18. Chapter Goals • Define basic prefixes used in the medical language. • Analyze medical terms that combine prefixes and other word elements. • Learn about the Rh condition as an example of an antigen- antibody reaction.
- 19. a-, an- no, not, without ab- away from ad- toward ana- up, apart ante- before, forward Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology
- 20. contra- against, opposite de- down, lack of dia- through, complete dys- bad, painful, difficult, abnormal ec-, ecto out, outside endo- in, within Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 21. epi- upon, on, above eu- good, normal ex- out, outside, away from hemi- half hyper- excessive, above hypo- deficient, under Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 22. in- not in- into, within infra- beneath, under inter- between intra- in, within, into macro- large Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 23. mal- bad meta- beyond, change micro- small neo- new pan- all para- abnormal, beside, near Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 24. per- through peri- surrounding poly- many, much post- after, behind pre- before, in front of pro- before, forward Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 25. pros- before, forward re- back, again retro- behind, backward sub- under supra- above, upper syn-, sym- together, with Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 26. tachy- fast trans- across, through ultra- beyond, excess uni- one Prefix Meaning Prefixes and Terminology (cont’d)
- 27. The Language Of Medicine 10th edition Davi-Ellen Chabner All information taken from