Medical Terminology

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn how medical words are built: eighty prefixes, roots and suffixes, and the terms they combine into.

Medical words are built, not invented. Learn eighty pieces and you can read a thousand terms you have never seen, including the ones that will be coined next year.

166 cards work both ways. One half asks what a piece means: brady is slow, -ectomy is removal, nephr/o is kidney. The other half asks what a built word means, so the piece is used rather than recited: bradycardia, nephrectomy, pneumothorax.

The pairs that trip people up are here on purpose. -otomy cuts into, -ectomy cuts out, -ostomy makes an opening that stays. Hyper is above and hypo is below, and one letter decides which. Nothing in this deck is anyone's property: word roots are Greek and Latin, and they have been public for two thousand years.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Prefixes” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Thirty prefixes, from a- and ab- to trans-
• The roots for organs, tissues and fluids
• Suffixes for symptoms, procedures and specialties
• Building a term and taking one apart again
• The pairs one letter apart that change the operation

The categories

7 categories sort the 166 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Prefixes
2. Roots: organs
3. Roots: tissues
4. Suffixes: procedures
5. Suffixes: specialties
6. Suffixes: symptoms
7. Word parts

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

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What it costs, and what it doesn’t

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It is a shortcut: 166 checked cards for €1.49, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.