Peer Review

This textbook is an open educational resource (OER) with CC-BY 4.0 licensing. It is aligned with the course competencies of Wisconsin Technical College System’s Medical Terminology course (10-501-101). The Medical Terminology course focuses on learning the components of medical terms, including prefixes, suffixes, and word roots, and also introduces students to diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, and symptomatic terminology of all body systems. A workgroup of WTCS faculty, led by Chippewa Valley Technical College, created this second edition based on peer reviewer feedback received for the first edition of the WTCS Medical Terminology OER textbook. Here is a summary of revisions and additions made in the second edition. This online book is free and can also be downloaded in multiple formats for offline use and for printing. The online version is required to complete interactive learning activities included in each chapter. The following video provides a quick overview of how to navigate the online version.

This textbook is an open educational resource (OER) with CC-BY 4.0 licensing. It is aligned with the course competencies of Wisconsin Technical College System’s Medical Terminology course (10-501-101). The Medical Terminology course focuses on learning the components of medical terms, including prefixes, suffixes, and word roots, and also introduces students to diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, and symptomatic terminology of all body systems. A workgroup of WTCS faculty, led by Chippewa Valley Technical College, created this second edition based on peer reviewer feedback received for the first edition of the WTCS Medical Terminology OER textbook. Here is a summary of revisions and additions made in the second edition. This online book is free and can also be downloaded in multiple formats for offline use and for printing. The online version is required to complete interactive learning activities included in each chapter. The following video provides a quick overview of how to navigate the online version.

Open (Access) Textbook

This book can be used as a course text, as a supplement, and can be used by individuals or teams.

• Internet access
• Web browser

After studying this text the learner will:

• Apply the basic rules for analyzing and building medical terms
• Define  common prefixes, word roots, and suffixes
• Describe the structural organization of the body
• Apply the rules of medical language to build, analyze, spell, pronounce, abbreviate, and define terms as they relate to the integumentary system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the integumentary system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the respiratory system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the urinary system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the male reproductive system
• Identify meanings of keyword components of the female reproductive system
• Identify meanings of key word components related to obstetrics
• Identify meanings of key word components of the cardiovascular system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the blood
• Identify meanings of key word components of the lymphatic and immune systems
• Identify meanings of key word components of the digestive system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the muscular system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the sensory system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the nervous system
• Identify meanings of key word components of the endocrine system

• College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional

• No prerequisite knowledge or skills are needed.