The course is designed to give the student of medical sciences the complete knowledge necessary for basic understanding of medical terminology. The rules of construction of terms are emphasized, and analysis of complex terms is presented to give their meaning, and to define and spell medical words correctly. This course provides students with the building blocks of medical terminology as prefixes, suffixes, roots, combining forms, pronunciation, spelling, plural, abbreviations and the definitions of medical terms related to different body systems required for future clinical practice.