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How can I best memorize medical terminology?

I am a college student applying for the program of radiologic technology. I will soon need to take several classes discussing anatomy, and I feel I will do best if I understand medical terms. However, they can be difficult to understand and remember. How can I best memorize these terms?

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Julia’s Answer

Flash cards!!!
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Nikki’s Answer

Well, depends on where you go. The school I went to went over the same chapter over and over and over again that I ended up having to leave the classroom and take a walk, so hopefully you are going into a course like this. If not, if it helps to, yes, have flash cards if that's your thing. Otherwise it helps to use utilize words that reminds you of the medical terminology words. Or do weird things. For instance, conchae of nose, my friend and I in Xray school would do stupid stuff to remind us of anatomy and terminology. She literally poked my nose after we learned Conchae and said it and I never forgot. Use reminder words and phrases. It really helps!!
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Justice’s Answer

Repetition is the secret to success! Start by discovering your learning style—whether it's visual, auditory, or kinetic. Choose the best way to learn that fits your style, and then keep practicing over and over. You can do it!
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Elyse’s Answer

Practice, practice, practice! Write down concepts in your own words and make flash cards. Drill them. Sort them into know, kinda know, and don’t know piles. Drill again.
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Amanda’s Answer

Flash cards are a great study tool. Also learning root words helps with medical terminology. For example “hemo” means blood. So knowing this can help you learn words like “hemoptysis” which is coughing up blood. Having a picture of red or blood on your flashcards can also help engrain it into your memory.
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Natasha’s Answer

Learn the roots, prefixes/suffixes and how certain words go together (distal versus proximal, dorsal vs palmer, etc.). I am also a huge proponent of flashcards! I still have the ones I used in nursing school because of all the work I put into making them! The benefit of making flashcards is it allows you to study three times while you're making them; once to find the information to go on the cards, again to summarize the info to go on the card, and the physical act of writing the information helps with retention as well. Then there's of course the actual studying using the cards, making them a quadruple threat!

Your teacher will (hopefully!) have lots of good tips for you as well, and there's also plenty of online study resources you can utilize.

Good luck!
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