Catalog 2024-2025

VETT 1000 Veterinary Medical Terminology

This course introduces the elements of medical terminology. Instructors place emphasis on building familiarity with medical words through knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Topics include word origins, word building, abbreviations and symbols, terminology related to animal anatomy, terminology specific to veterinary medicine, and reading medical orders and reports.

Prerequisite

Program admission

Corequisite

VETT 1010, VETT 1030, VETT 1060