Medical Terminology & Diseases of the Human Body

INSTRUCTIONS: Please review the Discussion Board grading rubric I have attached to understand how your posts will be evaluated. Your posts should be qualitative and provide substantive depth that advances the discussion. You need to make responses to your classmates or instructor and your responses should be around 75 words.

HS111: Medical Terminology

CLASSMATE POST #1

\Part 1: Choose 2 of the terms in column A and differentiate the prefix, suffix, combining form, and word root.

Pneumonia Cardiac

Suffix-ia/ee-ah Suffix-ac/ak

Prefix-pneumo Cardi- word root

Pneumon-word root Prefix- myo

Combining forms Pneum-o Combining form-meaning heart

IA-condition

Part 2: In addition, use one medical term of your choice to create an educational piece as if you were talking to a patient to describe what the word means in layman’s terms.