Medical Terminology

Name: Medical Terminology
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Learn to Decode any Medical Term with Exam Help

Created byLauren Bapst

Last updated 2/2026

English

What you'll learn

Students will learn how to decode medical terms.
Students will have a research mindset into medicine
Students will gain a background in unique medical terms that can lead to medical professions
Students will learn how to research various terms to exceed in their medical career
Students will have access to +1,000 medical terms from the official Taber's medical dictionary.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 8m total length

Introduction to Medical Terminology1:08
Learn anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, typing tests, and prescriptions for medical scribes. Scribes document patient cases and access results, and training roles offer career growth.
Student Nurse Video0:05
Prefixes of Medical Terminology34:19
paramedics0:16
Root Words of Medical Terminology1:13
Explore root words of medical terminology, linking abdominal, adrenal, anterior, arterio, cardio, dermal, encephalo, gastro, gynecology, hematology, histo, oculo, neuro, myo, pharmaco, thoracic, visceral, viscera, internal organs, and patho roots.
Suffixes of Medical Terminology2:54
Explore medical suffixes that convey meaning in terminology, including pain, blood condition, inflammation, and surgical repair. Identify suffixes such as itis, osis, penia, philia, phobia, plasty, scopy, graph, and lith.
Medical Terms A-C8:50
Learn medical terminology from A to C, covering abbreviations and terms for procedures, diseases, body systems, and tests such as abdominocentesis, appendectomy, cyanosis, arthralgia, and cytology.
Medical Terms D-F6:34
Master key medical terms from d to f, including edema, dermatitis, decubitus, dysarthria, dysuria, embolism, endocarditis, and erythropoiesis. Learn their definitions, pronunciations, and clinical contexts to boost terminology proficiency.
Medical Terms G-I5:48
Explore medical terms from g to i, including gastritis, gastroenterology, gastropathy, gastro lithiasis, glycogenesis, glycosuria, graphesthesia, kinesiology, and glossary concepts.
Medical Terms J-L1:47
Explore medical terms from j to l, including jargon and language aids, inflammation of the jejunum, chemophobia, coccidiosis, keloids, phobias, nostalgia, kinescope, ectomy.
Medical Terms M-O1:44
Explore medical terms from m to o, including macroangiopathy, macrocephaly, macroglossia, maculopathy, and oligohydramnios, and relate them to clinical concepts like edema, neonatal care, and obstetric practice.
Medical Terms P-R0:39
Explore medical terms from this course, defining para toxic events, pathosis, periodizing, pleuritis, papilla, quadrantanopia, quadra ocular, quadriplegia, and resilience.
Medical Terms S-U0:39
Explore medical terms from s to u, including syndactyly (webbed fingers), tophus (joint stones), trifocal lenses, triptan for migraines, tympani (hollow sound), umbilicus, uricotelic organisms, and ursodiol to dissolve gallstones.
Medical Terms V-X0:42
Explore medical terms from v to x, including vase, vasculitis, vertiginous, vasectomy, neurology, vertigo, vomitus, wheel, xanthinuria, xanthodermus, and xenophobia.
Medical Terms Y-Z0:28
Present medical terms from z-words, including zelotibia, synaesthesia, zoo blast, zoo graft, zoologist, and zoo phobia, with concise definitions tied to animal life and the body.
Medical Terminology List of Abbreviations1:09

Requirements

No prerequisites are needed for taking this course.

Description

Are you a student in nursing school, a medical technician or entering a medical program with the hopes of preparing to start your studies? Are you interested in a unique view on medical terminology that will teach you more than regular medical terminology classes? Prepare with this medical terminology course that teaches students every medical term they need to know. Students by the end of this course will be able to decode any medical term and recognize thousands of medical terms. Learn how to code any medical term using the Latin system of prefixes, suffixes and root words. Students will also learn about how to construct medical terms with combining vowels. The first unit of this course will cover common prefixes students will see as physicians. The second unit of this course will describe root words of medical terms. The final third unit of this course will talk about suffixes that medical terms have. Students will be proficient in coding and decoding medical terms. By the end of this course students will be confident and prepared to entering the field of medical studies. Students will see Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary where thousands of words will be discussed using a white board and videography. Students at the end of the course will be certified in medical terminology and be prepared to enter the field of medicine completely. Students will recognize medical terms immediately in their courses, be fully prepared for medical terminology classes in college or at universities, and students will be medical professionals ready to help patients with this plethora of medical terminology.

Who this course is for:

Beginning medical students in the fields of nursing, health promotion, medicine, or medical tech.