Medical terminology for dummies 1st Edition by Beverley Henderson, Jennifer Lee Dorsey ISBN 978-0470279656 0470279656
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ISBN 10: 0470279656
ISBN 13: 978-0470279656
Author: Beverley Henderson, Jennifer Lee Dorsey
Confused by medical terms? Don’t know a carcinoma from a hematoma? Medical Terminology For Dummies gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals and helps you master medical definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all health care fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, you’ll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.
This plain-English guide to language that can be just plain confusing clears up the meanings of the Greek and Latin sources of medical terms. You’ll get a handle on how these mouthfuls are constructed, and discover how to decipher any medical term, no matter how complex or unusual. You’ll also get plenty of help in pronouncing and remembering medical words, and you’ll find out how and why the terminology changes from hospital to laboratory to pharmacy. You’ll discover how to:
Understand word foundations and origins
Grasp the essential meanings of unfamiliar terms
Define common prefixes and suffixes
Identify and pronounce medical terms
Deconstruct words to grasp definitions
Use plurals and multiples with ease
Describe medical conditions accurately
Bone up on terms that describe the anatomy
Use mnemonic devices to remember medical terms
Know when words refer to diseases, injuries, treatments, and more
Use medical terminology in the real world
Complete with a list of essential references on medical terminology as well as helpful word-building activities Medical Terminology For Dummies puts you in the know in no time.
Table of contents:
Part I: Living for Linguistics
Chapter 1: Scrubbing in to Master Medical Terminology
Chapter 2: Medical Terminology: The How and Why
Chapter 3: Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Chapter 4: Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals – Oh My!
Chapter 5: Say What? Pronunciation and Usage
Part II: Mapping Words and Bodies
Chapter 6: As it was in the Beginning: Prefixes
Chapter 7: So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes
Chapter 8: Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition
Chapter 9: Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words
Chapter 10: An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body
Chapter 11: All Systems Go: When Systems Combine
Part III: In Terms of Anatomy
Chapter 12: Boning Up on the Skeletal System
Chapter 13: Getting Ripped: The Muscular System
Chapter 14: Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair
Chapter 15: It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems
Part IV: Let’s Get Some Physiology Terminology
Chapter 16: The Heart of the Matter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
Chapter 17: Just Breathe: The Respiratory System
Chapter 18: Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System
Chapter 19: Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System
Chapter 20: Calming Down: The Nervous System
Part V: Name That Plumbing
Chapter 21: When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System
Chapter 22: Checking the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System
Chapter 23: A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 24: Ten Essential Medical Terminology References
Chapter 25: Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices
Chapter 26: Ten Fun Word-Building Activities
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