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HCD101 - Medical Terminology

This course covers the pronunciation, spelling, and usage of medical terms and abbreviations. Topics include building medical terms using word roots, suffixes, prefixes and combining forms. Emphasis is placed on medical abbreviations, definitions, and pronunciation of terms. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use medical terms and abbreviations as well as pronounce medical terminology.

 

Medical Terminology

Medical Terminology: A Living Language
Online version of the 3rd ed. of the text, offers quizzes and other activities

Medilexicon
Dictionary includes over 230,000 medical terms and abbreviations

Short Course in Medical Terminology
Terminology by body system with short quizzes at the end of each chapter from Des Moines University

Sweet Haven Online Medical Terminology Course
An extensive system of medical terminology flash cards grouped by body system

Web Anatomy
Interactive quizzes of various lengths grouped by roots, suffixes and prefixes that test knowledge of medical terminology.  Also, timed tests, games and an image bank.


Additional Sites of Interest

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Reports on public health, disaster preparedness, by populations, patient safety and more

American Association of Medical Assistants
Professional Association for MAs includes a library of resources for those interested in the profession

American Hospital Directory
Includes free access to summary data for individual hospitals as well as state and national reports

American Medical Association
CPT coding and resources, ethical standards, medical liability, doctors directory

CDC Wonder
Portal to a wide variety of reports and statistics on public health

Centers for Disease Control
The leading agency worldwide for infectious diseases and public health also offers access to its publications and an image library

Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
Authoritative encyclopedia with articles on a wide variety of topics of interest to the allied health field

MedicalStudent.com
Links to free medical texts, websites and more

MedlinePlus
Single best source for medical information from the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine.  Includes a dictionary, encyclopedia, drug directory, animated features on diseases and conditions, and more

Merck Manual
Authoritative entries for medical terms and procedures from the 2nd Home edition

National Center for Health Statistics
Primary source of statistical data in the medical field

National Guidelines Clearinghouse
Portal sponsored by the US Department of Health & Human Services offers access to evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

PDRHealth
From the Physician’s Desk Reference.  Includes overview of diseases, treatment options, drug information and information about clinical trials

 

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