BIOL 110-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Terminology, Abstinence, Colectomy

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12 Sep 2022
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Explain how medical terms are developed: describe the process of pluralizing terms, describe how to interpret pronunciation marks. List basic legal and ethical issues for health-related professionals: describe how medical documentation is compiled. Dates to the time when people had only spoken language and no written language. Medical terminology began to gain uniformity as a result of the works of hippocrates. Forms the basic ethical standards of modern medicine with regards to: abstaining from voluntary acts of mischief & corruption, keeping confidences, doing no harm. Some aspects are still debated today such as: The word heart is derived from old english heorte which comes from a word related to greek kardia which means heart. Rules: add s to words ending in any vowel or consonant except s,x,z, or y (ex. joint- joints, add es to words ending in s,x, or z (ex. reflex - reflexes)