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✽ HPR 178 - Medical Terminology

1.0 - 4.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Introduces the student to the structure of medical terms with emphasis on combining and using the most common prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Includes terms related to major body systems, oncology, and psychiatry, as well as clinical laboratory and diagnostic procedures and imaging. Class structure provides accepted pronunciation of terms and relative use in the healthcare setting.
Prev. Course Codes: HSC-120, HSC-121, HSC-123
LEC 15 Contact hours per credit



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