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Source: U.S. National Institutes of Health and U.S. National Library of Medicine
Most medical terms contain at least one root, and they may also contain one or more prefixes or suffixes. This handout will describe how word parts create meaning to provide a strategy for decoding medical terminology and unfamiliar words in the English language.
1. Identify the roles of the four types of word parts used in forming medical terms. 2. Use your knowledge of word parts to analyze unfamiliar medical terms. 3. Describe the steps in locating a term in a medical dictionary. 4. Define the commonly used word roots, combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes introduced in this chapter. 5.
Review the B.U.R.P.S. tables and try to determine the definitions of the examples. Notice the overlap among the three groups of roots, prefixes and suffixes. Make new words by changing one part of the word. For example, if an appendectomy is the removal of the appendix, then a nephrectomy is the removal of a kidney.
With a combining form, the root word and a combining vowel such as i, e, o, or a may be combined with another root word, a prefi x, or a suffi x to describe a particular structure or condition. A frequently used term in EMS is CPR, which stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
In this short workbook you will find basic medical terminology, anatomy vocabulary, common medical procedures and basic cancer terminology. Components of Medical Words
Meaning. without, not away from pertaining to extremities hearing gland fat adrenal glands air pertaining to white pain anus vessel (blood, lymph) before front, anterior against aorta appendix water pertaining to artery joint fatty plague pertaining to atrium hearing ear self 2, double eyelid slow bronchus calcaneum (heel bone) calcium cancer ...
