Medical Terminology Demystified by Dale Layman

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Medical Terminology Demystified covers the entire uncomplicated phrases of sickness and harm, irregular anatomy and body structure, surgical recommendations, medicinal drugs, and different therapies--in the context of genuine, sensible future health matters. This self-teaching consultant comes entire with key issues, heritage info, quizzes on the finish of every bankruptcy, or even a last exam.

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Note that, once again, the meaning of the suffix (-al) comes first in the literal (exact) English translation of the term. We have also been somewhat liberal in our translation, adding “(the period)” or something similar within parentheses, so that the translation sounds smoother. SUMMARY OF WORD PARTS In summary, there are three main types of word parts that make up medical terms: prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Every single medical term has at least one root and a suffix, but not every medical term has a prefix!

4). As far as we know, Asclepius CHAPTER 1 The Basic Ideas 9 Zeus Asclepius Fig. 4 Zeus striking down Asclepius with a lightning bolt. (the real mortal man) may actually have been killed by a lightning bolt while wandering through the countryside. After his death, this myth of Asclepius grew until he finally became known as the God of Healing. The temples of Asclepius continued to spread throughout much of the Roman empire. Every night for more than a thousand years, sick pilgrims would come and sleep in the temples, where the priest-physicians would give them herbal remedies and pray to Asclepius (the God of Healing) for supernatural intervention.

Lucifer (d) Asclepius 5. The study of normal body structure: (a) Physiology (b) Medical terminology (c) Morbidity (d) Anatomy 6. Galen is commonly credited with being The Father of (a) Modern medicine (b) Nursing care and treatment (c) Radiotherapy (d) Experimental physiology 7. In the word, premedical, the part serving as the root: (a) -al (b) pre(c) emedical (d) medic 8. Body functions and the study of body functions: (a) Etymology (b) Terminology (c) Physiology (d) Geology 9. (a) (b) (c) (d) is the prefix in premedical.

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