Chapter 1 Introduction to Veterinary terminology

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Veterinary terminology

• VTHT 1205
• Dr. Dipa Brahmbhatt Ms. Krista Wilkerson

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Guidelines

• Syllabus

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Text

• Blood, D. C. and Studdert, V. P., Saunders
  Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary, 2nd Edition,
  W. B. Saunders, 1999, ISBN 0702020346.
• Flash cards

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Flashcards
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• The male Cocker Spaniel lies in left lateral
  recumbency on the carpet, exposing his ventral
  abdomen and thorax. His carpi and stifles are
  flexed and his right hind limb is abducted from
  the body.

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• The tortoise-shelled Domestic Long Haired feline
  has her sight focused on an object outside. Her
  weight rests on the plantar surface of her distal
  hind limbs, while the palmar surface of her left
  forelimb is placed on the windowsill. Her pinnas
  are erect and pointed cranially and her mandible
  is lowered, exposing her canine teeth and
  allowing her to vocalize at the object.

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• TYMPANIC MEMBRANE  
• ABDUCTION 
• BOWMANS CAPSULE 
• ERUCTATION 
• ERYTHROCYTE 
• CRYPTORCHIDISM 
• PERISTALSIS
• PARTURITION 
• CANNON BONE
• CYANOTIC

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OBJECTIVE

• 75 terms based in Greek and Latin
• Fundamentals
• ID Prefix, suffix, root, combination
• Application
• Anatomy Physiology Relate roots to systems of
  the body
• Dermo (Epidermis, Dermatologist, Hypodermic
  needle)
• Uro (ureter, urolith, urologist)
• Veterinary field Private practice, academic
  setting, research
• Illustrations/diagrams/charts
• Review questions

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PREFIX

• Beginning of a word
• Cannot stand alone attached to a root
• Antibiotic
• ANTI
• Against
• Asepsis
• a-, an-
• Greek prefix no, absence of, without, lack of,
  not

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SUFFIX

• End part of a word
• Cannot stand alone attached to a root
• Erythrocyte
• -cyte cell
• -itis, -logy, -ous, -tion

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ROOT

• Foundation of word
• /- prefix/suffix or
• between
• Rhin, duct, ject,
• arthr, bio
• Rhinintis
• Rhin nose

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COMBINING FORM

• Combining form
• Helps with pronunciation
• Root added vowel
• combining vowel
• Root suffix/ root
• Arteriosclerosis
• Blephar/o/spasm, ot/o/scope, enter/o/tomy,
  ven/e/puncture, bronch/i/ole, meg/a/cardia

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ROOTS / COMPOUNDS

• Compounds More than 1 root
• Arteriosclerosis Hardening of arteries
• Arteri Artery
• O combining vowel
• Scler Hardening
• -osis state/condition
• Bookmark, airplane
• Laparoscope, mammogram

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PRONUNCIATION

• ch sounds like k chronological, chronic
• ps has a silent p psychiatry, psyllium
• pn has a silent p pneumonia pneusis
• When placed in front of e, i, or y,
• g can sound like j
• gel, gypsy, gin
• c can sound like s
• cellar, cypress, cilia
• i at the end of a word (plural) eye
• Aveoli, glomeruli, fasciculi
• es end of word is separate syllable
• Stases (seez) nares (reez)

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PLURAL

• Singular ends in us
• Plural ends in i
• Carpus -gt carpi
• Glomerulus -gt glomeruli
• Phalanx -gt phalanges
• Cranium -gt crania
• Fascia -gt fasciae
• Adenoma -gt adenomata

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SPELLINGS

• This payshent has a feever. - unprofessional
• Ileum in bowel vs. Ilium in pelvis-
• could lead to misdiagnosis of a condition
• inappropriate work-up