“Medical Terminology”

Program Details

This program provides technologists with an understanding of commonly-seen medical terms including coverage of word foundations and origins and a basic coverage of numerous anatomy-related medical terms. Utilizes an easy-to-understand format book. Based on the textbook “Medical Terminology for Dummies ” by Beverley Henderson and Jennifer Lee Dorsey.

AHRA approved.

Each chapter of this textbook is separately approved by the AHRA for the following credit(s) (all chapters together total 15.5 Category A credits):

• Chapter 1 – Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology: 0.5
• Chapter 2 – Medical Terminology: The How and Why: 0.5
• Chapter 3 – Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes: 0.75
• Chapter 4 – Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals: 0.5
• Chapter 5 – Say What? Pronunciation and Usage: 0.5
• Chapter 6 – As It Was In the Beginning: Prefixes: 0.75
• Chapter 7 – So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes: 0.25
• Chapter 8 – Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition: 0.25
• Chapter 9 – Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words: 0.5
• Chapter 10 – An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body: 0.5
• Chapter 11 – All Systems Go: When Systems Combine: 0.25
• Chapter 12 – Boning Up on the Skeletal System: 0.5
• Chapter 13 – Getting Ripped: The Skeletal System: 0.5
• Chapter 14 – Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair: 0.75
• Chapter 15 – It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems: 1.0
• Chapter 16 – The Heart of the Matter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems: 0.75
• Chapter 17 – Just Breathe: The Respiratory System: 0.5
• Chapter 18 – Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System: 1.0
• Chapter 19 – Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System: 1.0
• Chapter 20 – Calming Down: The Nervous System: 0.75
• Chapter 21 – When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System: 0.75
• Chapter 22 – Check the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System 0.75
• Chapter 23 – A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System: 1.25
• Chapter 24 – Ten Essential Medical Terminology References: 0.25
• Chapter 25 – NOT AVAILABLE
• Chapter 26 – Ten Sets of Terminology Tongue-Twisting Diseases: 0.25
• Chapter 27 – Top Ten Crazy-Hard-to-Spell Medical Terms: 0.25

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