TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Medical Word Elements A1 - Finnegan, Lisa A1 - Eagle, Sharon PY - 2016 T2 - Medical Terminology in a Flash! A Multiple Learning Styles Approach, 3e AB - Most medical words derive from Greek or Latin and therefore may look and sound odd to you. However, once you have taken the time to learn the meanings of the word parts, you will be able to understand most of the medical terms you encounter, regardless of how big or complex they appear. There are three types of word parts that you need to know: (1) suffixes, (2) prefixes, and (3) combining forms (created by joining a word root to a combining vowel). You will use these word parts in a three-step process to find the meanings of medical terms. You also need to know the abbreviations and pathology terms that are used in health care; however, the three-step deciphering process often does not work with these terms. SN - PB - F.A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1163915453 ER -