How does medical terminology help in the medical field?

Answer 1

Understanding words and there meanings often can help you understand locations of vital organs and the functions of the body. If you don't know the medical terminology, you will be lost in a medical career and could potentially hurt someone because some words are so similar. It is also very easy to make a distinction between illnesses and treatments if you understand word spellings, meanings but also pronunciation plays a large role in this. Without knowing the medical terminologies, people in a hospital setting might get confused on how to work with a patient or how to treat their ailments.

As a medical assistant, it helped shorten what the person was c/o (complaining of). Sometimes the patients like to fire out a bunch of things, and you have a little area to write down the problem. It is a lot easier and faster to write down then to spell it out completely.

you tell me which is easier to write down:

NPO or nothing by mouth

Dx or diagnoses

STD or sexually transmitted disease

CPR or cardiac pulmonary resuscitation

qid or four times a day?

bid or twice a day.

If I wanted to tell doctor:

"Patient complaining of pain in abdomen everyday and shortness of breath."

it's a lot simpler writing it this way:

Pt c/o pain in abd qd and SOB.

see the difference? hope this helps you!

Answer 2

1.) So doctors can communicate quickly, considering the amount of writing involved on a day-to-day basis.

2.) To simplify complex and long medical terms.

3.) To communicate messages (subtly or unsubtly) to other medical staff about patients or colleagues.

Answer 3

Medical terminology is important so that professionals can easily understand what is going on with a patient. If you are a medical professional, your job will be much easier if you know medical terms.

Answer 4

Study of medical Terms. Those medical terms are very important in medical facilities and related jobs. It is important because professionals need to be able to understand what is going on and in a medical facility you will be bombarded by the medical language. If you do not understand these terms you will not be able to do your job. It will give medical workers an in-depth understanding of the terms used in a medical office. With it, you can learn, Word patterns, Root stems, prefixes, and suffixes, Medical terms recognition both by sight and sound. There will be no good communication with the medical office and the medical workers without the knowledge of this term.

Answer 5

A lot of profession in the medical field has to use it. Well, the reason for using medical terminology instead of conversational language is because conversational language have different meanings for words and phrases. In medicine it is very important to be able to understand what is being said/written. Medical terminology used Latin language because it is a dead language and will never change which means the meaning of medical terms will always be the same. There is less confusing then using conversational language which changes from day to day.

Medical terminology is much easier, quicker, and takes up less space than standard English words do. For example, to document in a patient's chart.

Medical terminology used Latin language because it is a dead language and will never change which means the meaning of medical terms will always be the same. There is less confusing then using conversational language which changes from day to day.

Patient complained of having a headache every day, has been taking aspirin every fours hours for three days, but with no relief from pain. Doctor has prescribed (name of med) to be taken three times a day.

It would be much quicker and easier to write:

Pt. c/o HA q d, taking ASA q 4 h x 3 d, c no relief. MD rx (name of md) t.i.d.

The above says the same thing as the long paragraph above that, but takes much less time for busy medical professionals. The information below will explain what the medical terminology used in the above is.

Pt. = patient

c/o = complains of

HA = headache

ASA = aspirin

q = every

h = hour/hours

d = day

c = with (the c should have a horizontal line above it)

MD = doctor

rx = prescribed

t.i.d. = three times a day

Answer 6

In order to describe the human body accurately a special language has been made up. This language is called 'Medical terminology'. Using the medical language it is possible to describe conditions and processes in a science-based manner.

Answer 7

Medical is from the Latin meaning "healing". Medicine, like the other treatments prescribed by the physician, are there to help you feel better (heal).