Interactive Medical Terminology (American English)
Interactive Medical Terminology
Welcome to my Interactive Medical Terminology course which I am are now
offering completely free to all medical and allied health students. The
course uses learning techniques similar to those in this self-teaching
book:
An Introduction to Medical Terminology for
Health Care (Fifth Edition) by Andrew R. Hutton
ISBN: 978-0-7020-4495-3-443-10075-6 Pub:
Elsevier Ltd
Once you have used some of the free units I would be grateful if you
could make even a small donation by clicking on the PayPal icon as this
will enable us to provide you with more units and tests, update the
current material and enable us to support medical education around the
world. Good luck with your medical studies and peace and good wishes to
everyone – Andy Hutton
We will be grateful for any donation by PayPal or credit card:
The Interactive Medical Terminology Course (American English)
To gain full benefit from the course it is advisable to study the units
in order beginning with the introduction The
Components of Medical Words. This explains how medical words can
be analyzed and understood from their components and it will enable you to
proceed efficiently through following units. You may also find it useful
to study Unit 1 on Cells, Tissues,
Organs and Systems as this explains words associated with the
levels of organization of the human body.
Note : the units can be studied separately if you wish to learn words
within a particular system.
Some units are in the process of being changed to HTML5
To get started simple click on the The Components of Medical Words
below:
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Introduction: The Components of Medical Words
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Unit 2: The Digestive System
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Unit 3: The Respiratory System
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Unit 4: The Cardiovascular System
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Unit 5: The Blood
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Unit 6:
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Unit 7: The Urinary System
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Unit 8: The Nervous System
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Unit 9: The Eye
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Unit 10: The Ear
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Unit 11: The Skin
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Unit 12: The Nose and Mouth
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The Skeletal System (FlashPayer required)
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Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (FlashPayer required)
20
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Oncology (Study of tumors) (FlashPayer required)
21
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Directional terms (FlashPayer required)
22
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Abbreviations, Medical Specialties, Qualifications & Medical Eponyms (FlashPayer required)
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Word Collections (FlashPayer required)
24
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Glossary of Word Components (FlashPayer required)
25
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Revision (AAMA CMA Practice Tests) (FlashPayer required)
26
Try the medical terminology examination by completing the following assessments, note:
- To pass each assessment you must score a minimum of 90%.
- You are allowed three attempts at each assessment.
- A re-assessment can be taken after six hours have elapsed.
- There is a time limit for each assesssment.
- Before attempting Assessments 6 and 7 revise the sets of exam abbreviations in Unit 22.
Pass all assessments and we will send you a course certificate that states your achievements
Assessment 1 Matching prefixes and suffixes to their meaning Quiz- Assessment 2 Matching combining forms of roots to their meaning Quiz
- Assessment 3 Matching medical terms to their meaning Quiz
- Assessment 4 Writing medical terms from their definitions Quiz
- Assessment 5 Naming medical specialties from their definitions Quiz
- Assessment 6 Expanding general medical abbreviations Quiz
- Assessment 7 Expanding medical abbreviations relating to body systems Quiz
- Assessment 8 Spelling medical terms from dictation Quiz
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