Course Title: InterActive Medical Terminology
Unit 7: The Lymphatic System and Immunology
Description:
This section introduces common medical terms associated with the lymphatic system and immunology. The process of phagocytosis is demonstrated by an animation of a macrophage destroying a bacterium.
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. |