Definition should include
- decoding of terms
- abbreviations of symbols and acronyms
- common medical prefixes, roots, suffixes, and their meanings
- names of diagnostic tests
- terminology that relates to the various conditions
- systems of the human body, including defining, spelling, and pronouncing terms related to the following:
- Common medical conditions (e.g., inflammation, swelling, pain)
- Body organization and anatomical reference system (e.g., planes, regions, direction)
- Structural units (e.g., cells, organs, tissues)
- Basic units of measurements (e.g., metric, US customary units)
- Conversion among measurement systems
Process/Skill Questions
- How can pronunciation affect the meaning of a term?
- Why is it important to correctly spell a medical term?
- Why is a basic foundation in suffix and prefix recognition helpful to healthcare workers and to healthcare consumers?
- What abbreviations are to be avoided?
- What systems of measurements are used? When are they used?
- What are proper conversions?