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From the University of Minnesota. Activities to help you learn commonly used prefixes, suffixes, and roots in human anatomy and physiology.

This is a complete and self-contained course in modern medical terminology. It is suitable for all students of the health occupations who will have a need to communicate with physicians, dentists, and other medical professionals. Little prior knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology is required.

The free course does not track your progress and you will not receive any documentation for your participation. If you need a certificate to verify your completion of the course, please register first using the link below.

Free medical terminology quizzes.

Medical terminology suffix quizzes.

A tutorial from MedlinePlus

The Medical Library Association created this page to help you understand what a doctor or nurse tells you. You’ll find tips on how to understand many health words. The terms on this site were created with the help of the Working Group for Health Literacy, Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network (MAHSLIN)

This site provides information on medical eponyms

Developed by Ed Friedlander MD, Pathologist. Most come from classical Greek. The next most common source is Latin.

MedTerms medical dictionary is the medical reference for MedicineNet.com. from doctors define difficult medical language in easy-to-understand explanations of over 16,000 medical terms. Provides quick access to hard-to-spell and often misspelled medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing.

Medical TERMINOLOGY - A thru Z

A list of word parts. They may be at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a medical word.

- short definitions used in PubMed, from the National Library of Medicine

Citation Information: Pure and Applied Chemistry. Volume 70, Issue 5, Pages 1129–1143, ISSN (Online) 1365-3075, ISSN (Print) 0033-4545, DOI: 10.1351/pac199870051129, January 2009

Taxonomies
and guide to 21st century therapeutics, technologies and trends
Glossary last updated June 2015 5,000+ definitions
compiled by Mary Chitty, Library Director & taxonomist, Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Needham MA

Glossary of Drug Discovery and Development Terms

This online talking dictionary will help you with the pronunciation of medical terms

This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You'll learn about how to put together parts of medical words. You'll also find quizzes to see what you've learned.

A list of word parts. They may be at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a medical word. This appendix supplements the MedlinePlus Understanding Medical Words tutorial.