The best way to learn medical terminology is to become familiar with the structure and the most commonly used components. Basic Components of Medical Terms. Most medical terms consist of three basic components: root word (the base of the term), prefixes (letter groups in front of the root word) and suffixes (letter groups at the end of the root word). When placed together, these three components define a particular medical term.
Vicar general. A vicar general (previously, archdeacon) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority and possesses the title of local ordinary.
NASA has released its VICAR Core set of applications as open source and it looks like the agency is opening its tools toward the international community. NASA started to develop VICAR Video Image Communication And Retrieval back in 1966 and it was original built to digitally process multi-dimensional imaging data.