MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY-IMPORTANCE OF MEDICAL WORD ANALYSIS-LESSON 17

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Medical terminology is a LANGUAGE helping us to learn medical science effectively. Medical terminology anlysis each word in medical science and divide each word into
1. SUFFIX
2. PREFIX
3. COMBINING VOWEL OR ROOT

By this division we can understand better about medical words.

IMPORTANCE OF MEDICAL WORD ANALYSIS:The first important foremost thing is to understand medical terminology by the technique ofword analysis method. Using division of words by this method makes us understand easilydifficult medical terms with relation to its meaning.The aim of this lesson is to analyze medical words or medical terminology.some medical words or medical terms are same in pronounciation, but their spellings aredifferent.For instance see these words:ilium and ileumthese are same in pronounciation, but the meanings are different.ilium is part of the hip bone. ileum is part of the small intestine.and note these words urethra and ureter, these two words resemble like the same word, butthe pronounciation and meanings are different, and even the spellings too.ureter (-UR-e-ter) is the one of the tubes leading from each kidney go into the urinarybladder. urethra (u-RE-thrah), this is a tube comes out fromt the urinary bladder tooutside the body i.e. bringing urine outside the body from the urinary bladderso medical terminology is like a new language, which is to be understood.2.

RELATION OF MEDICAL TERMS TO THE FUNCTION AND ANATOMY OF THE BODY:
Medical terminology explains the conditions of body and its work in healthy state and indisease state. for example, nephritis is a word, in this nephr- means kidney, and -itismeans inflammation, which means inflammation of the kidney. so we can easily remember thisword without just mugging up once we hear this word and its meaning. so one should not tryto mug up just medical words while learning, but try to understand the meaning of the partsof the word.

ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL WORDS:
To understand medical terminology, we should divide each word into its components such as,
1. ROOT or foundation of the word

2. PREFIX or WORD BEGINNING

3. SUFFIX or WORD ENDING

4. COMBINING VOWEL (/O/)

for example take one word, CARDIOLOGIST, in this word the ROOT is CARDI/, which means heart, and /O/ is the COMBINING VOWEL, and /LOGIST is the SUFFIX or WORD ENDING, so the meaning of the word is heart specialist.

now we study each of the component in detail, so it is necessary to learn medical terminology to understand the healthy and disease state.

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