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Medical Terminology Study Tools

See medical words come apart and click together. Every module has an animated walkthrough you can pause, slow down or have read aloud, and a Lab with an explorer, unlimited practice with hints and explained answers, a quick game and real-life cases. Everything runs in your browser on a computer, tablet or phone. No login, nothing graded.

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How to use this: open the walkthrough first and go at your own pace with the arrow keys or Next. Then open the Lab: play with the explorer, then practice in the trainer, using the hints and explained answers. Use the tools bar at the top of each page to pause the animations, slow them down, have the text read aloud, or get a written description of each picture.

Module 1 How medical words are built

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 1 WalkthroughWatch medical terms split into colored prefixes, roots, combining vowels and suffixes, see each part light up the body structure it names, and follow animated rules for spelling, decoding, look-alike roots, pronunciation, plurals and safe abbreviations. In the Lab, you build terms from parts while the vowel rules and body respond, practice decoding with unlimited leveled questions, race the clock matching parts to meanings, and apply word parts to realistic charting and handoff scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 1 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 2 Suffixes: conditions, procedures and specialties

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 2 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, the learner watches medical terms split into colored root, vowel and suffix blocks and read from the back, while kidneys inflame, livers enlarge, scopes travel through the gut, colons get a stoma and Latin plurals swap their endings across 22 animated steps. Explorer + practiceModule 2 LabIn the Lab, they build words from a combining form and a suffix and watch the vowel rule and the organ respond, drill unlimited items at three levels, race the clock sorting terms by suffix job, and decode realistic chart entries with fictional patients.

Module 3 Prefixes: position, number, time and negation

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 3 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, learners watch terms split into prefix, root and suffix blocks while animated scenes show the heart wall named by endo-, epi- and peri-, a lab sheet flagged with hyper- and hypo-, a urine bag filling to the poly-, olig- and an- marks, ECG strips for tachy- and brady-, a surgery timeline from pre- to post-, and the look-alike pairs that cause errors. Explorer + practiceModule 3 LabIn the Lab, they slide a vital sign or lab value and watch the term rebuild itself, practice decoding prefixes and terms at three levels with hints and a streak, race the clock matching prefixes to meanings, and apply the prefixes to five short patient scenarios.

Module 4 Body structure, directions and planes

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 4 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, learners watch cells build into tissues, organs and a whole body, see a figure settle into anatomical position, slice it along sagittal, frontal, transverse and oblique planes, raise the head of a hospital bed through the Fowler range, open the dorsal and ventral cavities, and map the abdomen into quadrants and nine regions while word parts split apart and recombine. Explorer + practiceModule 4 LabIn the Lab, they slice a body with any plane and see what each section passes through, compare landmarks with directional terms, drill 49 terminology items at three levels, race the clock placing organs in abdominal quadrants, and reason through clinical scenarios on laterality, imaging, positioning and charting.

Module 5 The integumentary system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 5 WalkthroughWatch skin terms split into their word parts on live cross-sections of the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis, then see glands, nails, color changes, primary and secondary lesions, infections, skin cancers with the ABCDE rule, pressure injury stages, burn depth with the rule of nines, biopsies, Mohs surgery, grafts, plurals and a decoded wound note. Explorer + practiceModule 5 LabIn the Lab, you build lesions and watch their names, plurals and chart phrases change, practice more than 60 roots, terms, plurals and abbreviations at three levels, race the clock sorting lesions, roots, colors and procedures, and decode five fictional skin and wound scenarios.

Module 6 The musculoskeletal system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 6 WalkthroughWatch bone, joint and muscle terms split into colored word parts beside live drawings of a long bone, the skeleton, the spine and a knee joint, then follow fractures, arthritis, spinal curves, DXA T-scores, surgical suffixes and chart abbreviations as they animate step by step. In the Lab, you build terms from roots and suffixes on a live knee and watch each suffix act on the structure, drill more than 50 items at three levels, race the clock matching word parts to meanings, and read six chart scenarios with fictional adults. Explorer + practiceModule 6 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 7 The cardiovascular system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 7 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, the learner watches cardiovascular terms split into their word parts and rebuild while a live heart beats beside them: the wall layers, chambers, valves failing by stenosis or regurgitation, the conduction system with its ECG, arteries and veins, plaque, ischemia turning to infarction, a clot traveling from leg to lung, heart failure, rhythm strips, procedures, drug endings and chart abbreviations. In the Lab, they change heart rate, blood pressure, valves and coronary blood flow and name what they see, drill 57 word part questions at three levels, race the clock matching terms in Pulse Match, and decode five realistic chart scenarios with fictional patients. Explorer + practiceModule 7 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 8 Blood, lymph and immunity

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 8 WalkthroughWatch blood words split into their parts while a tube of blood separates into plasma and packed cells, red cells shrink and pale in anemia, white cells take up their dyes, a clot forms in a leg vein and travels to the lung, lymph drains through valves and nodes, and antibodies lock onto antigens. Explorer + practiceModule 8 LabIn the Lab, you move sliders to build anemia, pancytopenia, leukocytosis and petechiae on a live CBC, drill more than 50 word part items at three levels, race the clock matching roots to meanings, and decode real life scenarios from chemotherapy neutropenia to anaphylaxis.

Module 9 The respiratory system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 9 WalkthroughFollow a breath from nostril to alveolus as respiratory words split into their parts and join back together, with animated airways, lungs, air sacs, breathing traces, breath sounds, spirometry curves and procedures across 22 steps. In the Lab, learners change breathing rate, depth, oxygen and a lung condition to watch terms and blood gases respond, drill more than 50 term-building questions at three levels, race the clock in a term matching game and work through six real-life chart scenarios. Explorer + practiceModule 9 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 10 The digestive system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 10 WalkthroughRide the digestive tube from mouth to anus one combining form at a time, watch bile and enzymes flow from the liver, gallbladder and pancreas, see where blood comes from in a GI bleed, and watch long terms such as esophagogastroduodenoscopy and cholecystectomy split into the parts that explain them. Explorer + practiceModule 10 LabIn the Lab, you build terms on a live digestive tube, practice with unlimited questions at three levels, race the clock to place terms where they happen, and work through five patient stories from GI bleeding to feeding tubes.

Module 11 The urinary system

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 11 WalkthroughWatch urine travel from the glomerulus to the meatus as kidneys, nephrons, ureters and bladder are drawn live, urinary terms split into their word parts, a dipstick and microscope build a urinalysis, and kidney and bladder diseases, tests, operations and dialysis play out step by step. In the Lab, you change blood flow, nephron function, weight and obstruction to see output terms, specific gravity, creatinine and AKI type respond, drill word parts and chart language at three levels, race the clock matching terms, and reason through short cases with fictional patients. Explorer + practiceModule 11 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.

Module 12 Reproduction, obstetrics and neonatology

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 12 WalkthroughIn the Walkthrough, the learner watches the female and male tracts label themselves root by root, sees terms such as salpingo-oophorectomy, leiomyoma and oligohydramnios split into prefix, root and suffix, and follows animated scenes of pelvic floor prolapse, an HSG dye study, a pregnancy history turning into GTPAL numbers, cervical dilation, Apgar scoring and newborn jaundice. Explorer + practiceModule 12 LabIn the Lab, they build terms on live anatomy and watch each suffix act on the organ, practice with unlimited questions including generated GTPAL histories, race the clock in a term match game, and decode fictional charts from the prenatal clinic, postpartum unit, gynecology office, urology clinic and NICU.

Module 13 The nervous system, psychiatry and the senses

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 13 WalkthroughWatch nervous system, psychiatry and special senses terms split into prefixes, roots and suffixes on animated drawings of the brain, spine, eye and ear, with deficits shaded on the body, bleeds and pressure building inside the skull, myelin damage slowing a signal, and the mental status words shown side by side. Explorer + practiceModule 13 LabIn the Lab, you place a lesion and watch chart terms such as hemiparesis, paraplegia, aphasia and ataxia write themselves, drill unlimited decoding items at three levels, race the clock matching word parts to meanings, and work through short fictional cases on stroke, head injury, unsafe abbreviations, psychiatric intake, the eye and the ear.

Module 14 Endocrine terms, abbreviations and documentation

Start here · Animated walkthroughModule 14 WalkthroughWatch hormones leave ductless glands and ride the blood, see the thyroid feedback loop push TSH up when the gland fails, split words like adrenocorticotropic and pheochromocytoma into their parts, and follow chart findings into the right lane of a SOAP note and past the Do Not Use list. In the Lab, you break the thyroid loop at different levels and read the TSH and free T4 pattern, practice 60 items on word parts, look-alikes, plurals, abbreviations and safe charting, race the clock sorting terms into SOAP lanes, glands and Do Not Use bins, and work through six chart scenarios with fictional adults. Explorer + practiceModule 14 LabExplorer, practice trainer, a game and real-life cases.