This course teaches the student the component parts of medical terms: word root prefixes and suffixes. Students will learn how to construct and analyze medical terms. It provides the students with the basic study of structures and functions of the Integumentary, Skeletal, Muscular, Special Senses, and Nervous Systems. Diagnostic, therapeutic, symptomatic, and pathologic terminology will be introduced. Students will be introduced to the basics of coding as it pertains to body systems.