Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

HSCS 1105 Medical Terminology

Designed to familiarize the student with the language of medicine including the human body, medical conditions and processes. Focus is on root words, prefixes and suffixes for word building.

Registration Name

Medical Terminology

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Online: Fall, Spring, Summer

Student Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Student will identify the importance of medical terms.
  2. Student will describe how words are put together to make a term.
  3. Student will define terms related to body structures and regions, directions and positions, and colors.
  4. Student will explain the use of terms in medical records and case studies.
  5. Student will utilize common abbreviations used in health care.
  6. Student will learn to define combing forms, prefixes, and suffixes related to each body system.