medical words

The systematic approach to build medical words is based on the concept of: word roots, prefixes and suffixes. Breaking a medical word down is a good way to understand or remember the word. Here is a list of roots, preffixes and suffixes used in medical terminology.Read more >>

Understanding Medical Words (flash tutorial):
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html

notes from the tutorial:
Medical word roots
body
bone = oste
muscle = myo
nerves = neur
skin = dermRead more >>