MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

0:00 everyone welcome to the pain approach and today I want to talk about how to
0:03 approach medical terminology
0:04 what I like to call breaking up which isn't
0:08 hard to do sold the key of course
0:11 is to take big complicated problems and to break them down into smaller more
0:15 manageable pieces this is true for languages well as the rest of his life
0:19 on the problem of course as i've mentioned in other videos
0:22 is that in science and medicine we use a lot of terms that comes from Greek and
0:27 Latin roots
0:28 so I highly recommend that as you master all these pieces you keep the list
0:32 or better yet get yourself a dictionary of Greek and Latin roots
0:36 and them you know you just build your skill set from the bottom up and it gets
0:41 easier as you go i promise.
0:42 I'm first thing to understand is that he got a break words down
0:46 into their component parts and most medical and science terms will have
0:51 on beginning which we call a prefix and middle
0:54 which is the root of the word and then ending which is this affects and so
0:58 usually the prefix
0:59 from and/or the suffixes is a modifier
1:03 I'm the main route as the word so you will probably notice if you haven't
1:07 already that
1:08 a medical terms are really long and
1:12 it's very daunting for a lot of people but the truth is most of them are very
1:15 descriptive name mean something said he could bring down
1:18 it's not going to be too bad I mean when you first look at these terms
1:22 and you can just say you know forget it this is ridiculously long
1:26 or you can just say look you know break them down and become more manageable
1:31 so I wanna do in this video is give you some of the most common
1:35 the puzzle pieces that you will encounter in medical terminology
1:38 and hopefully give me a good place to start so
1:42 something you see every time we talk about bone and the skeletal system
1:46 is osteo and we're talking about sell the parts were talking about conditions
1:52 things like this slideshow Z and osteo-arthritis
1:55 don't let this happen to you by the way take care of your joints on
1:59 you're going to see this osteo somewhere in there
2:02 osteo site in fact is your name and a bone cell
2:05 when you see my horse arco that refers to
2:09 muscle and all different types in cell structures
2:14 within muscle you're gonna see with money or circle for example
2:18 you'll see the sarcomere you'll see the sarcoplasmic reticulum on
2:22 you will see my 05 burgers or my 05 brill's
2:27 I love those things really to muscle and muscle has a lotta really specialized
2:33 structures and almost I love them you're gonna see with my own or circle usually
2:37 in a prefix
2:38 this you probably know already neuro refers to
2:42 nerves on and you're on is a nerve cell which is what you're looking at here but
2:47 there's a lot of other terms of course that use that route
2:50 so you know you're always going to be talking about nerves there
2:53 when you see germ that refers to the skin
2:57you probably know a lot of these terms already me epidermis
3:00which is this section way up here at the top at the just means on top
3:05on their five layers in the epidermis and
3:09and then beneath the epidermis is the germans the journal layer which is what
3:12you seem down here so
3:13Germany probably have heard terms like dermatitis for example just
3:18information on the skin dermatologist and things like that all relating to
3:24skin one bezels you can often see the term
3:28ngon you hopefully her dove angioplasty
3:31which is basically the insertion and little catheter in a balloon
3:35which is inflated in order to create space inside
3:39an occluded nestle on
3:42v veins we have the No or level like a phlebotomist
3:47for Obama's to someone who drives blood
3:50term for their profession me see that a lot

3:53most people know cardio and the hard

3:57and we really don't know why when you suffer emotional distress
4:01your heart aches its kind in history
4:05and not in medicine I can tell you at that time and others not help
4:09fees relating to the nose you often see
4:13Rhino like real classy which is a nose job
4:16and and of course that's the route for the rhinoceros so named because those
4:21not so much its big nose but bighorns
4:24this term from Tiffany
4:27refers to things like beach in panic membrane which is the eardrum
4:31the Tiffany that's fecal John in an orchestra and of course
4:36and drum vibrates and creates a particular pitch
4:40and similarly wind some waves
4:44strike that synthetic membrane and cause it to vibrate that will cause
4:48be year ossicles to vibrate and set up the whole chain evidence which leads to
4:53your ability to do here
4:56I missed you probably don't know that Nash Neph
4:59it relates to the kidney and the functional unit in the kidney is the net
5:03franz's
5:04and the actual net from here and
5:07that is held the kidney is able to filter blood
5:12and produce infiltrate which will eventually be urine
5:16so yes or on some of these you may know on they're all pretty common in this
5:20call a the school itself actually is referred to as the cranium you've probably heard
5:25 that and the I we'll see things like ophthalmologist you'll see
5:30 and ocular the ear is auto go to: am other lists those are the tiny little
5:39 bones in the year direction this milestone turnabout yes I was
5:42 I was mentioning earlier blood clots I'm you probably heard about thrombosis
5:48 and that's fairly commonly used
5:51and liver you see have had 0 a lot
5:54 liver cells are called patasse and you may have heard of hepatitis
6:00 which is a disease and deliver on breast actually
6:04 you're gonna see things like and mammary glands
6:08 I'm sure you've heard of mammography large intestine we use
6:12 a coehlo as Ian the colon for the large intestine itself at your feet and other
6:17 things like
6:18 a colonoscopy and gastro for the stomach
6:21 ily over the small intestine her ass 0 for the chest
6:26 and me I'm sure her to things like that for attic wall
6:31 and thorax all in same room
6:34 and in line numeral or perot
6:37 sure you've heard of pneumonia um clear rodeo
6:41 see things like pleurisy and
6:44 relating to the information and lung
6:47 membranes letterman's
6:51 prefixes especially relate to signs and size matters
6:55 course macro and which means large micro which means small you probably know
7:00 those make aloe or make gasoline into large
7:02 or enlarged out rates
7:06 this is a really important to take note because a lot of these prefixes look
7:10 very much the same
7:12 but they mean dramatically different things so for example if you're patient
7:15 is hyperthyroid ik
7:17 it means that they're so I write is overactive if their height
7:20 both ironic it means that I write is
7:23 not as active as it should be so the the main part of the word looks the same but
7:28 if you change that prefix it means a completely different thing
7:31 and tacky and Brady referring to rates as well
7:35 often in reference to the heart so tachycardia for example is a resting
7:39 heart rate that is too fast
7:41 and bradycardia resting heart rate that is
7:44 slow collars me a have a lot of prefixes relating to color
7:50 and chlorophyll for example like in plants is green
7:54 and Luke is white you see that in leukocytes
7:57 red ritratto a richer sites red blood cells
8:01 hand Scion which is the color blue

8:05 like a rich rose sigh and then cyanobacteria you may have seen in
8:09 general biology those are the blue-green
8:11 mg oh my goodness spend some time with these directional terms directional
8:16 prefixes because day will mess you up
8:20 on sometimes I sware these little guys
8:24 am are what drive people crazy look at this for example so
8:28 endo or in trouble mean within
8:31 but look at this difference im tryna verses
8:34 incher which means between so for example
8:38 I would say intra cellular and that means
8:42 with me in a single cell rate
8:45 but what if I say intercellular so that means
8:49 between cells sounds like a very small difference but it means a dramatically
8:54 different
8:54 and idea so most people would think about
8:59 download perhaps intercourse yeah that's a good one
9:02 which is between people there there is no such thing isn't reporters
9:06 memes far as I know extra refers to
9:10 outside and you certainly know things like
9:13 extraterrestrial parry parry means
9:17 around us when we talk about something
9:20 and that is around a structure
9:24 um parity me in for example
9:27 and that is fairly commonly used to mean around something you could even be it
9:32 could be a sell it could be
9:33 a whole she didn't issue it could be around in organ
9:36 the pericardium for example is a membrane surrounding the entire heart
9:41 an entrance that means across so this could be something like
9:46 and a protein that actually goes across
9:49 cell membrane and a transmembrane protein
9:52 or you could be using it to discuss a actual process
9:57 on you're gonna see that as well but these are
10:00 little guys that really make a big difference
10:04 and testing procedures he's get used a lot
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and that's really helpful to know these because I am
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you see them over and over again echo is in echocardiogram
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using ultrasonic waves electoral I'm sure you know
10:19
com it to me is the removal a gram is a picture
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you can talk about a graph the process of making an image
10:27
making tracked and using an instrument for
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viewing or creating and opening these are very common
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and finally and some problems Agnes
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meaning not working properly and now
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as a prefix meaning bad and the term nationality
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comes from this malaria was a disease that was thought to be spread through
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the
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air so literally malaria means bad air
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renown of course it's not cuz by the year and EDS referring to some sort of
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blood condition
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and ice anything with it. this is an information

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and 06 that's just very very broadly used term for condition or disease
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and as is the suffix Kathy for example neuropathy
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and is a very broad term for Disease and
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me nervous system so when you put it all together
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and we can take some big complicated words and break them down
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so here is a three parter for EM hypercholesterolemia
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so when you break it down you can see that paper
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which means elevated this refers to you of course cholesterol
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and EMEA and this is referring to
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a condition in the blood elevated blood cholesterol
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dermatitis and gave that one away earlier
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germ referring to the skin and tightest
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is be information so that Justin information and skin
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a colossus to me referring to the colon and then
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an actual opening in the colon
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so some things for you guys to try on your own
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and there's plenty of fun things to look at and I
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think that you'll find that if you just can't get over the initial panic I've
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wow these words are long and foreign
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night you just gotta keep going keeping keep reading keep exposing yourself to
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them
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UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

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what is

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a his sterile cell ping go
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let's face it understanding medical terminology
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can seem like a daunting task at first and in reality
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there is no possible way for anyone to memorize
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all the words in a medical dictionary it
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cell what is a hysteria cell Pinho
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our corrected me believe it or not there is a simple way to learn
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and understand these kinds of words at
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most words like this are simply a combination of different parts
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elements which include prefixes
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suffixes and workgroups
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well
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prefixes are syllables are elements placed at the beginning of a word
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it is used to make the word more specific suffixes
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are syllables are elements placed at the end of a work group
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and is used to indicate or describe the condition of the body
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and action to a body part such as
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act to me which is the procedure surgically removing an organized
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and word roots are the main elements within the medical term
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up which prefixes suffixes
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and connecting Balzer attitude
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these elements can be identified by specific characters
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a root word will be followed by a forward slash
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suffix will follow a hyphen
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any prefix will precede a hyphen
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other these elements can be identified by the specific characters
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the best way to be sure is to practice by learning the meaning to work group
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and the meaning of suffixes and prefixes
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home learning this course will also enhance your ability to score better in

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English portion
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SAT test and other similar tests such as
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ACT well
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root words are frequently associated with the body part a workgroup
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is always the subject our main topic up the medical term
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for example Park were good for heart is
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well
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Carty cartel or even
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cardio the slash is where the connecting ballot access to the router an example
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cardiomegaly the method for deciphering a medical term
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is that you start with the last word part and work yourself
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up to each element until you get to the first element up the term
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which would most likely be a prefix so you would need to decipher first the
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suffix
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in this case being medically
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magaly means enlargement the next element
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is the main element at the term which is called the word
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cardio which means hard
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the complete meaning for this tyre: cardiomegaly
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is in large men up the hard
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you can then say this term is indicating that the heart is larger than normal
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it let's take a look at another example
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appendicitis our word root is appended
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which is the appendix the suffix
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is I S meaning information or inflammation
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up appendicitis is the inflammation
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up the appendix it
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if you add the prefix pseudo to appendicitis
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you get the word pseudo appendicitis
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it pseudo means false pseudo appendicitis

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is a false inflammation up the appendix well
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the prefix typically serves to further define a workgroup
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when prefixes suffixes
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forward rates are joined together balance can be added for pronunciation
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purposes
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this is called combining form balance
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of course there are always exceptions but the general rules are
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combining fell is used when the suffix begins with the constant
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as with the word and settle a gram a combining val is not used
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when the suffix begins with Val as in encephalitis
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cool and combining Val
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can also be used 12 were more work group are joined together
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such as with pseudo appendicitis
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keep in mind the use a combining form pals
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which is typically the Val 0 is primarily used for the sake of being
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able to pronounce the medical term
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not so much for the sake of proper grammar the combining form pals
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neither ads nor does it subtract from the terms meaning
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let's take a look at one last example
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this one is a little more of a challenge the original word that we looked at
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history roselle ping go off correct to me what a mouthful
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and very important to know if you are not aware of the meaning of a medical
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time
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it can be very intimidating when medical personnel
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use terms like this medical personnel
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need to always remember that most people do not know what these terms mean
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under practicing medical ethics it is very important that you use words
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or descriptions that the patient or client understands
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what does history will sell paying go
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of correcting me let's follow the formula provided earlier

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first let's break down the term and
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elements these are prefixes suffixes
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and workgroups here's the breakdown:
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beginning from the right and moving to the left act to me
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which means surgical removal over 40
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is a root word for over Reese cell ping go
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is a root word for a low-key into and then the last element
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is his stereo a root word for uterus
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continuing the pattern on how to decipher a medical term
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reading from right to left surgical removal love
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ovaries bolopion tubes and uterus
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is now possible to understand the medical term
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history a cell ping go our corrected me
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this term is a description of a medical procedure commonly known as
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hysterectomy
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just because his words may look intimidating doesn't mean that they have
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to beat
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simply learning basic prefixes suffixes
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and word roots will enable you to understand a lot of terminology
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you have never imagined before a very proven method of learning the meaning of
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prefixes suffixes
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word roots is by using flashcards very simple to do it
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watch you can place a prefix suffix
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our word written on the front of the card and the meaning
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on the back this easy study method
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is a great tool and learning medical terminology but the best way to learn
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anything
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is to apply it throughout this series of videos
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as you learn about the anatomy and physiology up the human body
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will be applying your knowledge a medical terms by learning them

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according to organ systems followers sete skills dot com
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for more lessons in medical terminology con in I'm