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Aims of Studying Medical Language

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1.  The primary objective of studying medical language is UNDERSTANDING a complex term to be simply understood and make the student easier to understand it. If a student cannot understand the term, they may want to remember it only by mugging up the medical terms, which is hard. 2.  A medical term may be a simple one or may one complicated term, either needs to be understood to understand the medical science by a student or a reader. 3.  Each medical term is organized into parts such that each part of the term can be used with other words to give different meanings.  Eg. aden/o is a prefix that means gland, and it can be used with other prefix words to give different meaning related to a gland. For example, adenoma means mass of the gland. Adenitis is inflammation of a gland.  Understand. 4.  In this way, any term need not to be memorized, anyone who can understand the meaning changes with variations can never forget any medical term that they studied once by