Medical terminology

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Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine.

Medical terminology has quite regular

morphemes are learnt it becomes easy to understand very precise terms assembled from these morphemes. Much medical language is anatomical terminology
, concerning itself with the names of various parts of the body.

Discussion

In forming or understanding a

nephrologist
" combines the root word for kidney to the suffix -ologist with the resultant meaning of "one who studies the kidneys".

The formation of plurals should usually be done using the rules of forming the proper plural form in the source language. Greek and Latin each have differing rules to be applied when forming the plural form of the word root. Often such details can be found using a medical dictionary.

Morphology

Main articles: Morphology (linguistics) and List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes

Medical terminology often uses words created using

quadriplegia
.

Prefixes do not normally require further modification to be added to a word root because the prefix normally ends in a vowel or vowel sound, although in some cases they may assimilate slightly and an in- may change to im- or syn- to sym-.

Suffixes are attached to the end of a word root to add meaning such as condition, disease process, or procedure.

In the process of creating medical terminology, certain

combining form. In English, the most common vowel used in the formation of the combining form is the letter -o-, added to the word root. For example, if there is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines, this would be written as gastro- and enter- plus -itis, gastroenteritis
.

Suffixes are categorized as either (1) needing the combining form, or (2) not needing the combining form since they start with a vowel.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Introduction to Medical Terminology - AAPC". www.aapc.com. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  2. ISBN 978-1-93-816813-0. ID: [email protected]. Archived
    from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  3. ISBN 978-1-93-816813-0. ID: [email protected]. Archived
    from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
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