Medical Terminology
By Dr. Akash Garg, DC, MS Pharmacology, MEd, MBA · Updated October 20, 2026
Take any clinical word apart. Free to read, practice and play, with no sign-up.
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Chapters
- 1How Medical Words Are BuiltThe Four Building Blocks, Rules of Assembly and the Habit of Decoding, Roots Worth Knowing — and the Ones That Trip Everyone
- 2Suffixes: Conditions, Procedures and SpecialtiesWhat a Suffix Actually Decides, Suffixes That Name a Condition, Suffixes of Looking, Recording and Measuring
- 3Prefixes: Position, Number, Time and NegationWhat a Prefix Is and What It Does, Prefixes of Position and Direction, Prefixes of Number, Size and Quantity
- 4Body Structure, Directional Terms and PlanesFrom Cell to Organism: the Levels of Organization, Anatomical Position and Directional Terms, Planes, Sections and Clinical Positions
- 5The Integumentary SystemSkin, Layers and Appendages: The Core Combining Forms, Color, Lesions and the Language of Description, Pathology: Infection, Inflammation and Growth
- 6The Musculoskeletal SystemBone, Cartilage and Marrow: the Core Roots, Mapping the Skeleton, Bone by Bone, Joints, Muscles and the Tissue Between
- 7The Cardiovascular SystemThe Heart: Layers, Chambers and Valves, Vessels, Circulation and Blood Pressure, The Language of Cardiovascular Disease
- 8Blood, the Lymphatic System and ImmunityThe Vocabulary of Blood, Red Cells, Oxygen and the Anemias, White Cells, Platelets and the Language of Clotting
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- 9The Respiratory SystemWalking the Airway: The Combining Forms, The Grammar of Breathing: Suffixes, Prefixes and Plurals, What Goes Wrong: Respiratory Pathology
- 10The Digestive SystemThe Alimentary Canal, Mouth to Anus, The Accessory Organs: Liver, Gallbladder and Pancreas, Signs, Symptoms and Pathology
- 11The Urinary SystemThe Tract, End to End, Reading the Urine: The -uria Family, Disorders of the Kidney
- 12The Reproductive Systems, Obstetrics and NeonatologyThe Female Reproductive System and Its Combining Forms, The Male Reproductive System and Its Combining Forms, Pathology of the Reproductive Tracts
- 13The Nervous System, Psychiatry and the Special SensesThe word parts that build the nervous system, When the wiring fails: neurologic pathology, Looking inside: neurologic tests, imaging and surgery
- 14The Endocrine System, Abbreviations and DocumentationGlands, Hormones and the Language of Chemical Control, The Pituitary, Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands, The Adrenal Glands, the Pancreas and the Gonads
Written by Dr. Akash Garg
Doctor of Chiropractic, MS in Pharmacology, MEd and MBA. Teaching college science since 2007.