Basics of Medical Terminology

Master medical terminology with our comprehensive course. Learn to define terms using prefixes, suffixes, and roots for medical careers or personal growth.

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Brief Summary

This course makes medical terminology easy and fun! You'll learn how to break down complex terms using simple word parts, helping you in your medical career or just for your own knowledge.

Key Points

  • Medical terminology is like a foreign language, but it's easy to learn.
  • Course teaches prefixes, suffixes, root words, and combining vowels.
  • Includes PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, illustrations, and quizzes.

Learning Outcomes

  • Define important medical terms using word elements.
  • Identify and use prefixes, suffixes, and root words.
  • Understand the basic structure of medical language.

About This Course

Medical terminology doesn't have to sound like a foreign language. Learn the basics on how to define these terms.

 Medical terminology may seem like a foreign language to us. For the most part, it is a foreign language. One that can be easily learned and applied to pursuing a medical career or simply learning it for your own benefit. This course will instruct you on learning how to define a medical term using prefixes, suffixes, root words, and combining vowels. Instructor will provide power point presentations with lecture, worksheets for download, illustration handouts, and quizzes.

Upon completion of this course, the student will have the ability to define medical terms used in the language of medicine.

  • Define key terms

  • Identify basic word elements

  • State the meaning of prefixes, suffixes, and word roots

Instructor

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Lupe Jurado, CPC CPMA CPC-I

I have been in the medical field for over 25 years. I started my career as a medical assistant. I have experience as a front office receptionist, coder, biller, and Medicaid fraud investigator. I also have 6 years as a Medical Coding/Billing Instructor. I am currently employed with a large medical corporation as an educator and auditor. I hold a...

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of Maura Grose
Maura G.
1.0
2 years ago

It doesn't have any notes or good resources to download. Most of the files that are with the lessons won't work for windows media players.

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Melinda M.
5.0
2 years ago

Interesting

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Carolyn H.
2.5
3 years ago

The voice was not a good recording and did not flow well so I muted the whole course.
The colour selections for some slides were very difficult to read and the presentation was amateur. The content was appropriate to the topic.

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ui-avatar of Vincent Meslage
Vincent M.
3.0
3 years ago

Low quality teacher.

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ui-avatar of McKenzi Kelly
Mckenzi K.
5.0
3 years ago

I really enjoy learning the course. Very throughly described in all sections. The pictures along with the explanation are very helpful.

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ui-avatar of Bhanita Gill
Bhanita G.
2.5
4 years ago

I was not happy with the delivery of this course from the beginning. The lady is just reading the slides and in some slides she even cuts of before ending or finish explaining. I have brought the rating to 2 1/2 star and even this is higher than this course instructor should get.

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Kelly M. P.
5.0
4 years ago

Personally i took out a book with some paper and pen and i review all resources and wrote everything out. It was very informative and i like the diagrams.

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Sara
5.0
4 years ago

Because it’s well explained.

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Petrina B.
2.0
4 years ago

The narrating was not very fluid, speaker stopped and started a lot mid sentence, towards the end the slides changed before she was finished speaking. It was not very professional.

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ui-avatar of Simone Montgomery
Simone M.
4.5
4 years ago

It was very interesting and I learned a lot...

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