A large part of beginning the study of anatomy and physiology is learning the specialised words that are used. This new terminology may seem daunting but the challenge lies in its unfamiliarity rather than its difficulty of comprehension. You must expect to encounter a lot of new words and be prepared to learn them over the course of your study. Many of the words contain information as the words are constructed with a prefix and a suffix or a stem that identifies the word as referring to a speci...