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Medical Terminology

Medical Terminology. Week 1. The doctor took his patient into his office and said, "I have some good news and some bad news." The patient said, "Give me the good news." The doctor said, "They´re going to name a disease after you.".

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Medical Terminology

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  1. Medical Terminology Week 1

  2. The doctor took his patient into his office and said, "I have some good news and some bad news."The patient said, "Give me the good news."The doctor said, "They´re going to name a disease after you."

  3. A medical term is often made up of a word root (usually Latin or Greek) combined with a suffix (at the end of the word) and/or a prefix (at the beginning of the word) • During this course, we will have weekly medical terminology words to meet elements: • Interpret basic medical abbreviations selected from JCAHO’s recommended abbreviations list. • Analyze and define medical terms utilizing common medical prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.

  4. The GLITCH…. • JCAHO is the “Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations”(JCAHO), an organization that accredits and certifies health care organizations. This accreditation is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality and an organizations commitment to meeting the standards set forth by the Joint Commission. Insurance reimbursement is also tied to health care organizations meeting this standard. • THE GLITCH – Joint Commission does NOT have a standard list of abbreviations!

  5. So what do we do? • According to Joint Commission, there are abbreviations you may NEVER NEVERNEVER use! (see video) • Each health care organization is responsible for developing acceptable medical abbreviations using resources from certain medical terminology textbook (BUT NEVER NEVERNEVER USE THE ABBREVIATIONS on the JCAHO DO NOT USE LIST) • You will not be learning the never never use ones because you will NEVER NEVER use them! • Makes sense?

  6. This week’s words……

  7. AND THIS WEEK’S FUN WORDS… • If Arterio means artery and the suffix SCLEROIS means hardening of tissue or lining, what is • ARTERIOSCLEROSIS • If Colo refers to intestine and scopy is an examination using a scope, what is • COLONOSCOPY • If cardio refers to the heart and megaly refers to enlargement, what is • CARDIOMEGALY

  8. WEEK 2 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY(did not follow alphabetical order to use the vocabulary from health care occupation assignment)

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