Book excerpt: No medical student can understand or associate him or her to classroom subjects without knowing the basic concept of the terminology of the human body. Many courses of study for medical students such as, anatomy and physiology use medical terminology through the course of study, so a basic course in common medical terminology regarding the human body is essential to forming the foundation for further and deeper medical courses. There is so much information the student gleans from basic medical terminology of the human body that further study is impossible without this foundation including pronunciation of words, prefixes and suffixes of words, spelling and especially word definitions are all part of the basis of medical terminology.