MedicalTerminology.Guide

Flash
Cards

Efficiently learn and retain medical terms. Brush up for board exams. A great supplement to classroom and clinical training. Pronunciation tips available.

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Medical
Terms

Quickly lookup medical terms, abbreviations and word parts. Alphabetical listings as well as lists for each body system. Thousands of items!

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Word Parts

Learn medical terms using word parts (combining forms). We provide a concise summary of how to learn medical terms using prefixes, suffixes and word roots. A comprehensive list of word parts is available as well as flash cards.

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Learning Objectives

This website is intended to supplement traditional textbook, classroom and clinical training by providing interactive drills to strengthen long-term retention of medical terms. Our objectives for users:

• Long term retention of medical terms using spaced repetition learning.
• Understanding of medical prefixes, suffixes and roots.
• User selection of medical areas for study by body system.

Users are presented with medical terms in a variety of ways. A spaced repetition algorithm is used to make learning medical terms efficient by managing how frequently each term is presented to the user. Users can select terms by body systems for study.