ENG 231: Medical terminology

This course is essential for students pursuing any health care profession to learn and recognize word roots, prefixes, suffixes used in medical communications, to combine words to create meaningful medical conditions as well as to realize their definition and identify the correct spelling. The students will acquire the foundation, pronunciation and abbreviation of medical terms related to different body systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal,.. etc.) including structures, procedures, and diseases. It assists health care professionals to comprehend and utilize medical terminology to communicate with each other and with other health care professionals efficiently to maximize patients care.