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Medical Terminology · Module 1 · How medical words are built

How Medical Words Are Built Walkthrough

Watch long medical terms split into colored prefixes, roots, combining vowels and suffixes, see each part land on the body structure it names, and learn the rules for spelling, decoding, saying and pluralizing them. Go at your own pace. Nothing here is graded.

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Dr. Akash Garg · Medical Terminology Study Tools · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Drawings are simplified and not to scale. For learning only: word meanings here are study aids, not medical advice, and a decoded term should always be checked against its clinical definition. Use the left and right arrow keys to move between steps. Practice next in the How Medical Words Are Built Lab.