Medical Terminology Program- Combining Forms - Lesson 7
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 on...