Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professions: Part I — Word Construction and Body Language

The first of three courses adapted from Andrea Nelson and Katherine Greene’s open textbook, focusing on word-part construction, literal decoding, anatomical position, directional language, planes, regions, cavities, and membranes.

2 sections · 7 lessons

Course outline

Build the Term

  1. Four Jobs Inside a Term
  2. When the Linking Vowel Stays
  3. Decode from the Ending
  4. Small Prefix, Different Claim

Locate the Body

  1. Fix the Reference Position
  2. Planes, Regions, and Locations
  3. Cavities and Membrane Faces
  4. Locate a Fictional Procedure Note

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