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Oct 31, 2025
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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AHS 130 - Medical Terminology for Patient Care Staff
Description: Medical terminology used in direct patient care, with special care populations and in special services. Building and analyzing terms using word parts. Body-systems approach to terms related to structure and function, pathologies, and diagnostic procedures. Spelling and pronunciation of terms, medical abbreviations and symbols.
Prerequisites: Reading Proficiency
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Introduction of medical terminology
- Integumentary system
- Digestive system
- Musculoskeletal system
- Lymphatic and immune systems
- Special sensory organs: eye and ear
- Nervous system
- Male and female reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Cardiovascular system
- Endocrine system
- Urinary system
Learning Outcomes:
- Break down medical terms into their component parts. (1-12)
- Define the meaning of basic combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes. (1-12)
- Build medical terms from combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes. (1-12)
- Describe anatomical positions, planes, directions, and locations. (1)
- Identify structures and describe functions of each body system. (2-12)
- Describe disease processes and disorders that affect each body system. (2-12)
- Describe common medical procedures and treatments. (2-12)
- Spell and pronounce medical terms. (1-12)
- Convert medical terms from singular to plural forms. (1)
- Identify common abbreviations to medical terms. (1-12)
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