Open Educational Resources: Medical Terminology

Currently being updated every spring semester, 2021. An open textbook where H5P interactive elements are being added.

This free online medical terminology course offered by Des Moines University introduces the student learner to approximately 300 medical terms used by health care practitioners in the medical field.

This course introduces nursing students to the language of the Health Sciences and medicine with emphasis on body systems, prefixes, suffixes, root terms, and spelling. Upon completion, students will be able to analyze words structurally and demonstrate a correlation of the word elements with basic anatomy, physiology, and disease processes of the body.

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