HLTH 109Fundamentals of Medical Terminology

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HLTH 109 prepares students who plan to pursue a career as a medical assistant or other allied-health assistant/technician. This course emphasizes the pertinent skills of medical terminology, such as defining and building medical terms through an analysis of word parts, pronunciation of medical terms, describing the body structure, and defining/matching common abbreviations to body systems. This course cannot be used for credit in programs requiring HLTH 110.