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Medical terminology is language used to precisely describe the human body including its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine.

Medical terminology has quite regular morphology, the same prefixes and suffixes are used to add meanings to different roots. The root of a term often refers to an organ, tissue, or condition. For example, in the disorder hypertension, the prefix "hyper-" means "high" or "over", and the root word "tension" refers to pressure, so the word "hypertension" refers to abnormally high blood pressure.

The roots, prefixes and suffixes are often derived from Greek or Latin, and often quite dissimilar from their English-language variants.

This regular morphology means that once a reasonable number of morphemes are learnt it becomes easy to understand very precise assembled from these morphemes. A lot of medical language is anatomical terminology, concerning itself with the names of various parts of the body.

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