Medical Terminology flashcards
4 decks · 265 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: Standard allied-health medical terminology course; The Joint Commission do-not-use list. Updated 2026-10-10.
What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 3 decks · 210 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Practice · 1 deck · 55 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Number Prefixes 10
- Size & Degree Prefixes 7
- Position & Direction Prefixes 18
- Time & Speed Prefixes 8
- Color Prefixes 6
- Negation & Quality Prefixes 9
- Surgical Suffixes 11
- Diagnostic Suffixes 8
- Pathology Suffixes 21
- General Suffixes 3
- Cardiovascular & Blood 12
- Respiratory 11
- Digestive 13
- Urinary 9
- Nervous 8
- Musculoskeletal 10
- Integumentary 8
- Eye & Ear 10
- Reproductive 10
- Endocrine & Lymphatic 7
- General Pathology 3
- Building Terms 19
- Plurals 11
- Orders & Charting Abbreviations 18
- Diagnosis Abbreviations 7
- Do-Not-Use List 8
A study plan
- 10 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
- Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
- In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
All 4 Medical Terminology decks (265 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Checked against "Building a Medical Terminology Foundation" (Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford, CC BY 4.0) and Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary definitions (reference only; all wording is original).
- Checked against "Building a Medical Terminology Foundation" (Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford, CC BY 4.0) (reference only; all wording is original).
- Do-not-use abbreviations checked against The Joint Commission's official "Do Not Use" list (reference only; facts restated in original wording).
- Original questions written for this deck; no official, textbook or question-bank items were copied. Medication amounts are deliberately omitted.
These are independent study notes written for Willys. They are not official exam material, may contain mistakes, and are no substitute for your course, your teacher or the exam owner's own publications. Found an error? Tell us — corrections ship as a new version of the deck.
Not clinical guidance. These cards prepare you for an exam. Never use them to make decisions about a patient's care: follow current guidelines, prescribing information and your institution's policies. The decks contain no doses.
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