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This section will introduce you to the basics of the veterinary practice and veterinary terminology and the parts of medical terms.� You will learn about prefixes, combining vowels and forms, and suffixes.� Once a basic knowledge of medical terminology has been gained, it will be simple to analyze and understand basic medical terms.�

It is important to be proficient in pronunciation of the terms you are learning, and accurate spelling is equally important. �Medical dictionaries are valuable tools for the veterinary assistant, and the use of these and other resources will be discussed in this section.

The veterinary assistant must be able to recognize and identify the various body planes, positional terms, and directional terms used in veterinary medicine.� This section will discuss related terms, as well as terms that indicate body cavities, pathology, structure, and function.

Students will find the CD Rom that accompanies the medical terminology text to be a great help in learning medical terms.� These are a foundation to the knowledge that is necessary to perform the duties of a veterinary assistant.

The care and maintenance of the veterinary practice facility is an important aspect of practice management.� Clients demand a clean, well-organized and managed facility and friendly, professional staff members.� This unit covers these subjects as well as a healthy dose of medical terminology.