Medical Terminology Words and Meaning - Lesson 331
We try to learn medical terminology. what is a medical terminology? a medical terminology is a medical word, that's all. what is the difference between an ordinary word and a medical word. Every medical term has three different components, such as, prefix, combining vowel, and a suffix. Each medical term word is an unique one with its special meaning. Take some examples, cardiologist, dental, myalgia. The above examples are medical terms. The first one cardiologist means specialist in heart ailments. How can we come to this meaning? only by dividing them in mind. How can we divide cardiologist? We can divide this word like this cardi/o/logist. The first part prefix is cardi/ means heart. /o/ is the combining vowel, and -/logist means specialist. Take the second one dental. How can we divide them? dent/al dent/ means teeth and -/al means pertaining to. So, dental means pertaining to teeth. Take the last medical terminology myalgia. what does it mean? my/- mean