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Understanding Medical Words

Although it may look a little juvenile, I think this is a useful tutorial from the National Library of Medicine which helps you understand medical terminology.  It shows how to put words together and how to break them apart into prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.  It links to the MedlinePlus dictionary and encyclopedia so you can look up the meaning of a medical term.  It covers some common medical abbreviations and links to MedlinePlus’s list of medical abbreviations as well as lists of various word parts.   Throughout the tutorial are simple quizzes to see what you’ve learned as you proceed through the screens.  Check it out and let me know if you found it useful or not.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).