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Medical terminology is the “jargon” of the healthcare field. Understanding medical terminology is much like understanding a foreign language. Knowing the origin of medical terms and the meaning of specific letter combinations helps practitioners communicate more effectively with other healthcare professionals as well as their clients. This course trains students to understand the origin of medical terms, pronunciation and the meaning of unusual letter combinations, and related anatomy and physiology. This course is perfect for holistic health practitioners of all kind who want to expand their medical vocabulary and be able to communicate with primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals. Upon completion you will be able to state the derivation of most healthcare terms; use the rules given to build, spell, and pronounce healthcare terms; recognize the most common forms in a medical record; recognize the most common healthcare disciplines; and use terms associated with the organization of the body, positional and directional vocabulary, planes of the body, pathology, therapeutic interventions and related anatomy and physiology.
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