Creating Medical Terms

Overview

For each body system, it is important to know the medical terminology. Interacting with medical prefixes and suffixes deepens your understanding of the terms, which will allow you to better understand medical terminology when encountering them during your coursework and in your nursing profession. The objective is to make connections between new medical language and to promote engagement with the terms.

Instructions

the Medical Terminology Template Download Medical Terminology Template to 30 medical terms. Download the document, the words using the Medical Terminology PPT Download Medical Terminology PPTfor this module, and then upload your completed document.

To build your Medical Terms:

• Use the medical prefixes and suffixes provided for this module in the Medical Terminology PPT Download Medical Terminology PPT.
• Form 30 medical words using a prefix, combining form, and suffix. (Remember not all medical words have a prefix-prefixes are optional.)
• Provide the meaning of the medical words you create.
• Remember to use the words that are specific to the current module by combining form, suffix, and prefix.
• topic : Endocrine System

Endocrine System

combining forms to chooose from ONLY

acr/o (extremities, height) aden/o (gland) adren/o (adrenal glands) adrenal/o (adrenal glands) calc/i (calcium) cortic/o (cortex, outer layer of a body organ) dips/o (thirst) glyc/o (sugar) endocrin/o (endocrine) kal/i (potassium) natr/o (sodium) parathyroid/o (parathyroid gland) pituitar/o (pituitary gland) thyr/o (thyroid gland) thyroid/o (thyroid gland)

Endocrine System

Combining Forms acr/o (extremities, height) aden/o (gland) adren/o (adrenal glands) adrenal/o (adrenal glands) calc/i (calcium) cortic/o (cortex, outer layer of a body organ) dips/o (thirst) glyc/o (sugar) endocrin/o (endocrine) kal/i (potassium) natr/o (sodium) parathyroid/o (parathyroid gland) pituitar/o (pituitary gland) thyr/o (thyroid gland) thyroid/o (thyroid gland)

Suffix -al (pertaining to) -drome (run, running together) -ectomy (excision, cut out) -emia (in the blood) -ia (conditon of, abnormal state, diseased state) -ism (state of) -itis (inflammation) -logist (specialist or physician who studies and treats) -logy (study of) -megaly (enlarged, enlargement) -oid (resembling) -oma (tumour) -pathy (disease) -plasia (condition of, formation, development, growth) -tomy (incision, cut into)

Prefix hypo- (below, under, deficient) hyper- (above, excessive) para- (around, beside, beyond, abnormal) syn- (joined, together) pan- (all, total)

example:

WORD PARTS USED MEDICAL WORD MEDICAL WORD MEANING EX Peri-, cardi/o, -um Pericardium Structure around the heart EX Gastr/o, -itis Gastritis Inflammation of the stomach