Medical Terminology An Illustrated Guide 7th

Knowledge of medical terminology is fundamental to a

wide variety of health care fi elds. This book is designed

to satisfy the basic learning requirements needed to practice

in any health career setting. In the course of your training

and future careers, you will need to learn thousands of new

terms. The job might be overwhelming if not for learning

the skills of dividing the words into their component parts.

These roots, suffi xes, and prefi xes appear over and over

in different terms but retain the same meanings. Knowing

these meanings will help you defi ne and remember a host of

words. This process is like using a set of building blocks to

assemble different structures. Using a more scientifi c exam

ple, it’s like using the four bases in DNA.