[GottaGetIn]

Hello there!

I start NS in Sept and was wondering if any of you kind folk can reccommend a good book or even better, a free website, where I can learn some medical terminology.

Thanks in advance.

[starbabyfive]

I start school Aug. 1. I purchased book a called " Medical Terminology-
A Short Course" by Davi-Ellen Chabner that I've been working through.
It's workbook style & alot of emphasis on prefixes & suffixes that is helpful. JMHO Hope this is of some help.

[JarOfPennies]

Medical Terminology was a prerequisite to our nursing program. The textbook we used was "Medical Terminology Systems: A Body Systems Approach," by Barbara A. Glylys and Mary Ellen Wedding.

It was really nice because it gets you familiar with prefixes, roots and suffixes and then each chapter gives you a nice review of each body system and the medical terminology that is associated with each of those systems. It was kind of like medical terminology with an A&P refresher. It also has a CD-Rom so that you can hear how words are pronounced and then do practice questions. I also bought colored index cards and wrote all the prefixes on one color, roots on another and suffixes on another and practiced putting them together to make words.

I absolutely loved this book and it is very well-used! Congratulations on your acceptance! Hope this helps.

[GingerSue]

here's a link for medical terminology:
http://www.lcsc.edu/healthocc/enable02/medterm.htm

and for medical terminology with pronunciation:
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/resources/...s/index/a.html

[kasia2]

Originally Posted by GottaGetIn

Hello there!

I start NS in Sept and was wondering if any of you kind folk can reccommend a good book or even better, a free website, where I can learn some medical terminology.

Thanks in advance.

Im taking micro this summer to become familar with medical term, we use book by Saunders, is really good, just learn the foundation of it, the suffixes which are located at the end of word are the most important because they change the meaning of word, like for example -ology you can add many prefixes and root words to it...like for instance psych/o...which make it psychology or bi/o which means biology...the o added to psych and bi is just a vowel to connect the root or prefix to a the end of word ( suffix) for the purpose of better pronounciation...and remember to drop the vowel if the suffix starts with vowel also because the word wont just look like think how psychoology would look like...wrong right? So you drop the o after slash (psych/o) and you just add the suffix ology....which means the study of something. Good luck

[dkweaver]

Gotta question.. I can't find this in Tabers or any of my med term books.

The suffix is -um

I know probally something really simple

TIA

Kat

[dkweaver]

I found it right after I posted the question
It means structure

ex. pericardium-- structure surrounding the heart.