At the end of the class you will be able to: Medical terminology
is often difficult to understand. This course will provide you
with a wide variety of medical abbreviations and medical terms
which should be studied and memorized. It will also provide you
with an indepth knowledge of many medical terminology prefixes,
suffixes and stems that will help you understand the meaning of
hundreds of medical terms. PREFIXES, SUFFIXES and STEMS All
medical terms can be broken down into word parts. The three word
parts that you will be concerned with are the: Usually, only two
of these parts are present in a medical term. The stem is the
part of the word which gives the basic meaning to the term. The
part of the word, "basketball," which gives the basic meaning to
the word is "ball." Therefore, "ball" is the stem or the root of
the word. The part of the word which comes before the stem and
modifies the meaning of the stem is called the prefix. In the
word "basketball," "ball" is the stem and "basket" is the
prefix. The