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Learn Latin Roots: Create Your Own Medical Terminology Cheat Sheet, umw…
Learn Latin Roots: Create Your Own Medical Terminology Cheat Sheet
Basic components
Suffixes
At the end of the root word
Prefixes
Letter groups in front of the root word
A lot of medical terms come from Latin or Greek
You don’t have to learn words one by one. In fact, most top teaching hospitals recommend that you don’t.
It is not necessary to know all the terms, just
Prefix
Peri-
Suffix
-itis
Root
-card-
Sometimes a word may contain more than one root
Example: “bronchogenic”
Root
Bronch
Gen
When you know all the major building blocks of the medical language you can easily puzzle out the meaning of even the most complicated medical terms.
Medical terms can be formed using several combinations:
It is not difficult to learn medical terminology.
You can easily find lists of almost all medical roots, prefixes and suffixes and even various medical terminology cheat sheets.
