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Introduction
A medical professional who wants to brush up on the terms if you're a bit out of practice or just want to learn more about how these terms are created. It's not painful and we think you'll find it interesting to read the story behind the conditions.
Living for Linguistics
Finally, you'll wind down with some helpful top ten lists of great resources, word building activities, and recall units. When you turn the last page, we know you'll feel confident and ready to talk root words and eponyms with the best of them.
Mapping Words and Bodies
Once that happens, the book takes you right into the human body for a grand tour of systems and the terms that go with them.
In Terms of Anatomy
Let’s Get Some Physiology TerminologyTerminology
Name That Plumbing
The Part of Tens
In any case, if you're feeling down, you can jump right into this book at any time and start working on your terminology knowledge. Once you understand how these words are made, you will have no problem committing them to memory and in your daily life.
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Living for Linguistics
Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology
Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology
You can put the words into plurals (which unfortunately involves a lot more than adding a simple s), find out how to pronounce them, and—the big payoff—use them in the real world. The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the brain and spinal cord.
Medical Terminology
The How and Why
Tonsillitis is a one-word medical term to describe "inflammation of the tonsils," and appendectomy is a one-word medical term to describe "surgical removal of the appendix." It's much easier to use one word than a long, drawn out sentence to describe these conditions, don't you think. For example, a firefighter must relay information to paramedics, such as the condition of a burn victim who is being placed in an ambulance.
Sprechen Sie terminology?
Medical Terminology: The How and Why
One thing that gets some people thinking about medical terminology is spelling the words correctly. You can thank the two founders of medical terminology for getting the ball rolling: Hippocrates and Aristotle.
Introducing the Big Three
Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Copycats and opposites
And you're probably familiar with the word ultrasound, a procedure that—you guessed it—provides a look at your insides that's outside the normal range of visual examination. You may recognize many of the prefixes associated with medical terminology because they have a similar meaning in common, everyday vernacular.
It’s just semantics
Prefixes and suffixes are modifiers or adjectives that change the meaning of the root word in the same way as regular English expressions. You can read a lot more about prefixes in Chapter 6, but to whet your appetite, Table 3-3 gives you a quick look at some of the most common prefixes that play a big role in both normal, everyday English and medical terminology.
Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals — Oh My!
Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals — Oh My!
It means a deformity or curvature of the penis caused by fibrous tissue in the tunica albuginea. Some rules for the plural of medical terms are as follows, with examples of the rule and exceptions to the rule.
I before E: Memorization techniques
Say What? Pronunciation and Usage
Say What? Pronunciation and Usage
A combined vowel is not used when the suffix begins with a vowel as this would make pronunciation difficult. Once the suffix is determined, you can then move to the beginning of the word to determine the prefix, if there is one, and the root of the word.
Terminology treasure hunting in the dictionary
Pronouncing terms for conditions can be easy if you first familiarize yourself with the root word of the condition, and then with the suffix. Oophorectomy (ou-ou-for-ECT-om-ee): Surgical removal of an ovary ✓ Salpingectomy (sal-pin-JECT-oh-me): Surgical removal of a fallopian tube ✓ Salpingogram (sal-PIN-joe -gram) ): Results record of salpingography ✓ Salpingography (sal-pinj-OG-rah-fee): Procedure to examine fallopian tube Some of the examples here demonstrate how the pronunciation of a medical word can change just by gram versus graphy or adding ectomy versus otomy.
And now for the grand finale
One letter difference turns the instrument into an exam and, more importantly, changes the pronunciation even more.
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Mapping Words and Bodies
As It Was in the Beginning
Prefixes
As It Was in the Beginning: Prefixes
Kissing cousins: Different names, same meanings
For example, you can recall the meaning of macro by thinking about the word macroeconomics, which is about economics on a large scale. Keep in mind that the following is nowhere near the definitive list of medical words, but it's a nice sampling of the prefixes at work.
Not even close: Opposite prefixes
Perioperative: period around or during an operative procedure ✓ Postnatal: after or after childbirth. Heaven knows there are tons of long, hard-to-spell 25-cent words used in the pharmacy and lab.
So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes
So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes Table 7-1 Suffixes: Wrapping It Up
So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes
Cardiograph: Machine used to take a cardiograph ✓ Cardiography: The process of recording the heart's activity ✓ Herniorrhaphy: Surgical fixation or repair of a hernia ✓ Hysterectomy: Surgical removal of the uterus. If you read Chapter 6, you may remember that we left you hanging in the middle of the alphabet in our root word summary.
So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes Table 7-2 Recapping Root Words (N–Z)
Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition
Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition
Heart: Pertaining to the heart Carditis: Inflammation of the heart Cholecyst/o Gallbladder Cholecystectomy: Removal of the. Ureteropelvic: Pertaining to the ureter and pelvis of the kidney Urethr/o Urethra Urethritis: Inflammation of the.
Deconstruction Junction
Breaking Down Words
Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words
And hepatosplenomegaly would be enlargement of the liver and spleen, a double barreled word. The suffix -osis means "a disease or abnormal condition", a common suffix associated with many of the root words.
An Org Chart to Live By
Organization of the Body
An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body
The sides of the body are referred to as lateral, and the middle is referred to as medial. To the right and left of the navel region are the right and left middle regions.
Get in position
To the right and left of the hypogastric region are the right and left iliac regions. The right lower quadrant (RLQ) contains parts of the small and large intestine, appendix, right ureter, right ovary and fallopian tube.
All Systems Go: When Systems Combine
All Systems Go: When Systems Combine
You know that the heart pumps blood around the body through arteries and veins, which are part of the cardiovascular system. The cardiovascular system could not survive without the help of the muscular system - the myocardium is the heart muscle - which in turn is kept functional by the autonomic section of the nervous system.
A fantastic voyage
The spleen stores red blood cells, which can be released to the body as needed. The lungs facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and body cells.
You’ve got connections
Homeostasis is an automatic process that maintains the stability and balance of the body's internal environment to keep us healthy. The endocrine glands play a role in this grand orchestra that maintains the harmonious music of the body.
The three little systems
During ejaculation, seminal fluid passes through the urethra, so the urethra serves two purposes in the man. Actually, fertilization of a sperm and an egg occurs in the fallopian tube and then moves to the uterus to grow.
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In Terms of Anatomy
Boning Up on the Skeletal System
- Boning Up on the Skeletal System
- Boning Up on the Skeletal System Facial bones
- Boning Up on the Skeletal System Table 12-1 Digging Up Your Skeletal Roots
- Boning Up on the Skeletal System Table 12-4 More Common Skeletal Vocabulary
It is a fracture of the distal end of the radius (distal means the part of the body furthest from the point of origin). An example is the ball and socket type - such as a hip joint where the femoral head fits into the acetabulum.
Break it to me gently, Doc
Total knee replacement arthroplasty is performed to replace the worn surfaces of the knee joint. Arthritis is the inflammation of a joint and most joint surgical procedures use the same root arthrosis.
Getting Ripped: The Muscular System
Internal movement involves the contraction and relaxation of involuntary muscles, muscles that we cannot consciously control. All bodily movement, whether it's the lifting of an arm or the beating of the heart, involves the contraction and relaxation of voluntary or involuntary muscles.
Tendons: The ultimate wingmen
Getting Ripped: The Muscular System
You already know that skeletal muscles, or striated muscles, are the muscles that move the bones of the body. The connection of the muscle to the bone that moves is called insertion of the muscle.
Tell me more: Describing muscles
In the forearm (forearm) are the flexor and extensor muscles of the hands and fingers. The major muscles of the back include the seventh cervical vertebra, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, latissimus dorsi and the rhomboid major muscle.
Unofficialoma
Getting Ripped: The Muscular System Table 13-3 Common Muscular Vocabulary
Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair
Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair
The subcutaneous layer of the skin consists of connective tissue that is specialized for the formation of fat. These glands under the surface of the skin are called sebaceous glands (sebaceous glands) and sweat glands (sweat glands).
Stinking it up: Your sweat glands
Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair Table 14-3 Common Integumentary Vocabulary
It Depends on Your Perception
The Sensory Systems
The retina turns the focused image into nerve impulses that travel along the optic nerve to the occipital lobe of the brain for processing. The eye consists of the inner eye (the eyeball) and the outer eye (the facial structures and eye muscles that surround the eye).
Eye like it short
It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems
The middle layer, the uvea, consists of choroids, ciliary body and iris. It is called the optic disc or blind spot and is the entry point for the main blood vessels of the eye and where the optic nerve passes from the brain to the eye.
Check your lenses
The choroids, the inner lining of the sclera, contain blood vessels that supply the eye. The conjunctival membrane lining the eyelids and the front part of the eye exposed to the air provides protection and lubrication.
The short version of your ears
Another part of the middle ear is the auditory or eustachian tube, a canal that leads from the middle ear to the pharynx. The part of the labyrinth leading from the oval window is a bony, snail-shaped structure called the cochlea.
Demystifying deafness
It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems Table 15-4 Listening to Your Roots
Otitis media purulent Inflammation of the middle ear, resulting in the collection of pus. Most conditions related to smell and taste involve the body's inability to perform these sensory tasks.
