Course Title: InterActive Medical Terminology
Unit 3: The Digestive System
Description:
This section introduces common medical terms associated with the digestive system from the esophagus to the anus. Also included are terms associated with the pancreas and liver which act as accessory organs to the digestive system. The direction of the flow of bile and pancreatic juice is shown by means of moving arrows.
The types of interactive exercise you will use in this section are the:
Dictionary Exercise |
Components of medical words and their meanings can be repeatedly flashed on to the screen to aid learning. |
Word Exercise |
Components learnt in the dictionary exercises can be dragged and dropped to form medical words associated with their meanings. |
Spelling Exercise |
You type in medical words that fit a definition and then check your score or make corrections |
Anatomy Exercise 1 |
Click on a component to see its position in the body, then check combining forms associated with these positions. |
Anatomy Exercise 2 |
Drag and drop combining forms to associate them with their anatomical position. |
Flash Cards |
All the components of words used in this section are flashed onto the screen for you to guess their meaning. Included are prefixes, combining forms of word roots and suffixes. |
Dictation Exercise |
You spell words from dictation. Each word is pronounced when you press a button, the word is entered by typing into a box and checking your score. |
Self-Assessment Exercise |
Interactive exercises that check knowledge of: anatomy, meanings of prefixes, combining forms and suffixes, ability to spell medical terms from their meanings and from dictation. |
Access: |
The interactive course is available for 1 year from date of purchase and is studied via the internet on your computer. After one year the course can be renewed at no further cost by individual students. |