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Medical Terminology

Class Number: MEDTERM 10501101-11 - Medical Terminology
Offering Status: Open
Academic Level: Post_Secondary
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Course Description

10-501-101 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY ...focuses on the component parts of medical terms: prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Students practice formation, analysis and reconstruction of terms. Emphasis on spelling, definition and pronunciation. Introduction to operative, diagnostic, therapeutic and symptomatic terminology of all body systems, as well as systemic and surgical terminology.

Course Typically Offered

  • Summer
  • Fall
  • Spring

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Credit for Prior Learning

What will I learn?

  1. Apply the rules of medical language
  2. Apply medical terms related to the body as a whole
  3. Interpret medical terms related to the lymphatic and immune systems
  4. Interpret medical terms related to the integumentary system
  5. Interpret medical terms related to the female reproductive system
  6. Interpret medical terms related to the male reproductive system
  7. Interpret terms related to the blood
  8. Interpret terms related to the visual and auditory sensory systems
  9. Interpret terms related to the musculoskeletal system
  10. Interpret terms related to the respiratory system
  11. Interpret terms related to the digestive system
  12. Interpret terms related to the nervous system
  13. Interpret terms related to the endocrine system
  14. Interpret terms related to the urinary system
  15. Interpret terms related to the cardiovascular system

Class Details

Class Number:
MEDTERM 10501101-11 - Medical Terminology
Date:
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Delivery:
Other Distance Mode
Term:
2025 Fall

Class Notes

Students will attend class at the assigned dates and times. This class will be taught through a combination of in-person and live virtual meetings accessed anywhere using internet. For more information regarding this delivery and how to access your class, see www.nwtc.edu/blendedfaq. 

Meetings Times

Dates Day(s) / Time Location
9/2/2025 - 12/18/2025 Online Live Monday/Tuesday/Thursday
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

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