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.

To build your Medical Terms:

• Use the medical prefixes and suffixes provided for this module in the Medical Terminology PPTDownload Medical Terminology PPT.
• Form 25 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.

EXAMPLE

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

Blood

MAKE 25 -Combining FORMS TO CHOOSE FROM ONLY

agglutin/o clumping chrom/o color coagul/o clotting erythr/o red fibrin/o fibers, fibrous granul/o granules hem/o blood hemat/o blood leuk/o white morph/o shape myel/o bone marrow phag/o eat, swallow thromb/o clot

Lymphatic System

MAKE 25 -Combining FORMS TO CHOOSE FROM ONLY

Aden/o (gland) immun/o (immune, immunity) lymph/o (lymph, lymph tissue) lymphaden/o (lymph gland, lymph node) Lymphangi/o (lymphatic vessel) myel/o (bone marrow, spinal cord) splen/o (spleen) thym/o (thymus gland) Tox/o (poison)