Medical Terminology Program- Combining Forms - Lesson 7

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In this medical terminology program, we deal about medical terminology as a subject matter in the next few lessons.

We start from combining forms.

1. IMPORTANCE OF MEDICAL WORD ANALYSIS:The first important foremost thing is to understand medical terminology by the technique of word analysis method. Using division of words by this method makes us understand easily difficult 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 pronunciation  but their spellings are different.For instance see these words:ilium and ileum these are same in pronunciation  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 pronunciation 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 urinary bladder. urethra (u-RE-thrah), this is a tube comes out from the urinary bladder to outside the body i.e. bringing urine outside the body from the urinary bladder so 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 program explains the conditions of body and its work in healthy state and in disease state. for example, nephritis is a word, in this nephr- means kidney, and -itis means inflammation, which means inflammation of the kidney. so we can easily remember this word without just mugging up once we hear this word and its meaning. so one should not try to mug up just medical words while learning, but try to understand the meaning of the parts of 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/)

5. COMBINING FORM

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.
OK LEARNERS...we will study in detail about ROOT component of medical terminology program in the next lesson....come on...

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