Terminology

field, learning and using medical terminology is essential to navigating through the vast ever-advancing medical world. Every occupation within healthcare uses it. Medical terminology is a universal language in the medical field that helps us identify, define and understand large complicated terms which facilitates faster and easier to understand oral and written communication. With the ability to put together root words and modify them by using prefixes and suffixes, one can figure out meanings and spot mistakes. In addition, it creates consistency and accuracy over several practices and departments. Thus, medical terminology is efficient and essential to simplifying communication in the medical world. Another…

Goal #7: Demonstrate a proper knowledge of digital terminology, and how both humans and computers comprehend these concepts. Language can be very powerful when it comes to digital formatting. The terminology collectively understood by CMDC graduates helps fit them into the real world directly out of college. When working on a project, everyone involved should be speaking the same computer language, not only in their terminology but their general understanding of coded languages and scripts. This…

“Standardized terminologies is commonly-understood set of terms used to describe clinical judgements involved in assessments (nursing diagnoses), along with the interventions, and outcomes related to the documentation of nursing care.”(NANDA International, Inc.) For a nurse to be able to provide care, sustain life, ensure recovery, alleviate suffering and promote health, it should be documented within the electronic health record (EHR). When capturing such informations within the EHR,…

It is so vital to learn medical terminology when going into any kind of healthcare related career path. It is an excellent aid in helping healthcare professionals communicate with one another; but knowing a term itself and being able to break it down and really understand it are two different things. Too many people come into the healthcare world thinking they can just memorize individual terms and succeed. What they may not realize, is that being able to break down your words is so much more…

Using standardized nursing terminologies are important to reveal the uniqueness of nursing care and furthering nursing research. Nursing has always faced challenges to separate nursing contribution of patient care from medicine. This become more observant as the introduction of electronic health records and the implementation of nationwide health information network. It is impossible to implement electronic documentation, without having a standard language or terminology to describe the key…

1) Amendment Terminology Overview. In general, if we talk in lay man language Amendment means change in any legal document made by adding, altering, or omitting a certain part or term. Documents which need to be amend has to be signed by all concerned party members. Simple example can be of carpet ordering for our new house, after ordered new carpet for our newly bought house, due course of time I realized I had forgotten one of the rooms carpet. I might need to call the contractor to write an…

After determining the problem, you will later find the location its size or presence and then its combining form. If you were unable to remember these set rules you wouldn’t be able to understand any medical terminology presented to you. It is a must that you will be able to interpret the different parts of the medical terminology because it is imperative that you do so correctly. The many components of the word will help you successfully identify its meaning if you the translator of the…

Origins of Golf Terminology While it is humorous, it is not true that the word Golf is an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. The word “golf” actually comes from the past term for ‘club’. The earliest known mention of the word golf was in 1457 when King JamesⅡtried to ban “ye golf” in order to have more focused on Archery practice (Bogey para 5-9). However, the term golf, defind as we know it, was originated in Scotland. The term was used for the game Scottish shepherds used for…

It is important for medical professionals and doctors to use universal medical terminology for body positions, regions, cavities and planes, when finding and discussing decisions about your health. This is important to doctors and other professionals working in the medical field because it is their own language. Knowing terminology, locations, and planes are important for the doctors to tell surgeons and other doctors where the injury is located. Patient medical notes need to be legible, and…

be found at the beginning of the word or within the word. Suffix means to fasten on, beneath, or under. When you break down a word to understand it or when you give the meaning of the word or read its definition, you usually begin with the meaning if the suffix. Word roots and combing forms, together with their definitions, depending on the cell, tissue, organ, system or element they describe. This makes it possible for you to form associations between medical terms and the various body systems.…