Medical Terminology Study Guide & Flashcards

What's inside

• Start Herehow to use the guide, how medical words are built (prefix, root, combining vowel, suffix), the joining rules and how to define a term suffix first
• Prefixes (2 pages)numbers and amounts, size and speed, good and bad, position and direction, colors, each with its meaning and a color-coded example word
• Suffixes (2 pages)conditions, body functions, procedures and surgery, tests and instruments, specialties and "pertaining to" endings
• Plural rulesvertebra to vertebrae, bronchus to bronchi, diagnosis to diagnoses, appendix to appendices and 7 more patterns
• Body systems (11 pages)body basics, skin, bones and muscles, nervous system, eyes and ears, heart and blood, lungs, digestive, urinary, endocrine and reproductive, each with combining forms, meanings, example words and space for your own words and memory tricks
• Directions and body planessuperior and inferior, anterior and posterior, medial and lateral, proximal and distal, plus coronal, sagittal, axial and median planes
• Abbreviations44 common abbreviations (tests, conditions, body and care), 11 order abbreviations from Latin (NPO, PRN, stat...) and The Joint Commission's official Do Not Use list explained in plain words
• Word buildingBreak It Down, Build the Word (with a word bank), Define It and Make It Plural, and a blank Word Builder template
• Flashcards140 cut-out cards in 4 decks (prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, abbreviations), term on the front, meaning and an example on the back, plus blank cards and a flashcard tracker
• Quizzes4 quizzes (prefixes, suffixes, combining forms and body systems, abbreviations and plurals) with a score box, and an answer key behind a divider page at the back
• My Terms word list, lined notes and a START-HERE guide