Medical Terminology ((3 Credit Hours))

Catalog description

This course covers basic medical terminology for students planning to enter health care. Provides a working knowledge of medical abbreviations and common drugs. Emphasizes prefixes, suffixes, and root words and how they are combined in medical terms while stressing spelling, definition, usage, and pronunciation. This course builds on basic principles and is designed to develop an understanding of the terms related to anatomical systems, reviewing both structure and funtion.