Medical Terminology
A Medical Terminology is a terminology of medical terms within the medicine domain.
- AKA: Healthcare Terminology.
- Context:
- It can (typically) include Disease Names.
- It can (typically) be a Language-Specific Medical Terminoogy, such as an English Medical Terminology or a French-Canadian Medical Terminology.
- It can overlap with Biomedical Terminology.
- It can be represented in a Medical Dictionary.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Medical Textbook, Medical Encyclopedia, Medical Ontology.
References
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/medical_terminology Retrieved:2021-11-6.
- Medical terminology is language used to precisely describe the human body including its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine.
Medical terminology has quite regular morphology, the same prefixes and suffixes are used to add meanings to different roots. The root of a term often refers to an organ, tissue, or condition. For example, in the disorder hypertension, the prefix "hyper-" means "high" or "over", and the root word "tension" refers to pressure, so the word "hypertension" refers to abnormally high blood pressure.[1] The roots, prefixes and suffixes are often derived from Greek or Latin, and often quite dissimilar from their English-language variants.[2] This regular morphology means that once a reasonable number of morphemes are learnt it becomes easy to understand very precise terms assembled from these morphemes. Much medical language is anatomical terminology, concerning itself with the names of various parts of the body.
- Medical terminology is language used to precisely describe the human body including its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine.
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes Retrieved:2021-11-6.
- This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in New Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine. First, prefixes and suffixes, most of which are derived from ancient Greek or classical Latin, have a droppable -o-. As a general rule, this -o- almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. + + -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o- is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. + -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.