This course has been designed for the students of health care professions to provide in-depth understanding in recognizing and forming medical terms. This course will help the student to develop the extensive medical vocabulary used in health care occupations. This course describes the fundamentals of medical terminology through a study of root words, prefixes and suffixes. The students will apply the knowledge of medical root words, prefixes, and suffixes to the human body systems, disease, disorders, abnormal conditions, surgical procedures, medical devices and medical specialties, medical specialists etc. Hence, this course provides detailed study of prefixes, suffixes, word roots, combining forms, special endings, plural forms, and abbreviations based on anatomy and physiology related to each of the body systems, sterilization process. Emphasis on spelling of sterilization related terminology and utilization of references books. This course also provides medical terms used in all heath care settings. Medical Terminology and Building a Medical Vocabulary, medical terminology pertaining to the whole body.