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Medical Terminology Study Guide Printable: Prefixes, Suffixes, Abbreviations & Flashcards for Nursing Students

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Look at a long medical word like gastroenterology and read it, part by part, before anyone explains it.
This 69-page printable medical terminology study guide covers prefixes, suffixes and combining forms for 11 body systems, common abbreviations with the Do Not Use list, word-building practice, 140 double-sided flashcards and 4 quizzes with a separate answer key.

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━━ WHAT'S INCLUDED ━━
• Start Here: how to use the guide, how medical words are built (prefix, root, combining vowel, suffix), the joining rules and how to define a term suffix first
• Prefixes (2 pages): numbers and amounts, size and speed, good and bad, position and direction, colors, each with its meaning and a color-coded example word
• Suffixes (2 pages): conditions, body functions, procedures and surgery, tests and instruments, specialties and "pertaining to" endings
• Plural rules: vertebra to vertebrae, bronchus to bronchi, diagnosis to diagnoses, appendix to appendices and 7 more patterns
• Body systems (11 pages): body basics, skin, bones and muscles, nervous system, eyes and ears, heart and blood, lungs, digestive, urinary, endocrine and reproductive, each with combining forms, meanings, example words and space for your own words and memory tricks
• Directions and body planes: superior and inferior, anterior and posterior, medial and lateral, proximal and distal, plus coronal, sagittal, axial and median planes
• Abbreviations: 44 common abbreviations (tests, conditions, body and care), 11 order abbreviations from Latin (NPO, PRN, stat...) and The Joint Commission's official Do Not Use list explained in plain words
• Word building: Break It Down, Build the Word (with a word bank), Define It and Make It Plural, and a blank Word Builder template
• Flashcards: 140 cut-out cards in 4 decks (prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, abbreviations), term on the front, meaning and an example on the back, plus blank cards and a flashcard tracker
• Quizzes: 4 quizzes (prefixes, suffixes, combining forms and body systems, abbreviations and plurals) with a score box, and an answer key behind a divider page at the back
• My Terms word list, lined notes and a START-HERE guide

━━ DETAILS ━━
• 69 pages, hyperlinked: section tabs, a clickable contents page and bookmarks for GoodNotes, Notability, Xodo and other PDF apps
• Color-coded throughout: prefixes blue, roots red, combining vowels teal, suffixes gold (the low-ink version keeps the slashes between parts)
• Flashcard backs are mirrored, so each meaning lands behind its term when printed double-sided (flip on the long edge)
• Every word part, example, abbreviation and plural was checked against open references: MedlinePlus (U.S. National Library of Medicine), NCI SEER Training, The Joint Commission's public Do Not Use fact sheet and Wikipedia
• Sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• Two styles: full color and low-ink for black-and-white printers
• 5 files: Letter color, Letter low-ink, A4 color, A4 low-ink and the START-HERE guide
• For nursing, medical assistant, medical coding and billing, pre-med, pharmacy tech and allied health students

━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━
1. Purchase and download your files from Etsy (Purchases and reviews).
2. Print at "Actual size" (cardstock works well for the flashcards), or import a PDF into your tablet app.
3. Learn the prefixes and suffixes first, then one body system a day, and drill with the flashcards.
4. Take a quiz, then check the answer key at the back.

━━ PLEASE NOTE ━━
• A study aid, not clinical guidance: follow your program, facility and drug references. Terms and abbreviations vary between programs and facilities; your textbook and your facility's approved list come first.
• An independent design with no ties to any school, exam or test-prep company.
• For personal use only. Please do not share, sell or redistribute the files.
• Colors may vary slightly between screens and printers.
• Because this is a digital product, returns and exchanges are not accepted.
• If anything is wrong with your files, message me and I'll help right away.

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