Building a Medical Vocabulary
Saunders (Verlag)
978-1-4160-5627-0 (ISBN)
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Build the medical vocabulary skills you need for success in health care with this engaging resource. With an active learning approach ideal for use in the classroom or for self-study, this comprehensive, yet approachable, text establishes basic terms and progressively introduces new root words, prefixes, and suffixes with a unique building-block format that encourages you to learn as you write and speak new terms. Concepts are presented in small, manageable segments accompanied by chapter exercises and review questions that help you understand medical terms and ensure effective communication in the health care field.
Introductory Chapters: Foundations of Medical Terminology 1. Tools for Building Medical Terms Word Building, Word Parts, Forming Plurals, and Pronunciation 2. Medicine and its Specialties Using Combining Forms to Build Terms about Medical Specialties 3. Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Surgical Terms Using Suffixes to Build Medical Terms 4. Diseases and Disorders Using Suffixes to Build Terms about Diseases and Disorders 5. Prefixes Using Prefixes, Suffixes and Combining Forms to Build Medical Terms 6. Organization of the Body The Body's Organizational Scheme, Anatomic and Directional Terms, Body Regions & Cavities 7. Body Fluids and Immunity Cellular Needs, Blood and its Terminology, and the Immune System Body Systems 8. Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems 9. Respiratory System 10. Digestive System 11. Urinary System 12. Reproductive System 13. Reproduction and Sexually Transmitted Diseases 14. Musculoskeletal System 15. Nervous System and Psychological Disorders 16. Integumentary System 17. Endocrine System Review 18. Review of All Chapters Appendices I. Chapter Pharmacology Erinn Kao, Pharm D II. Medical Abbreviations III. Enhancing Spanish Communication English-Spanish Translation of Selected Terms Spanish-English Translation of Selected Terms Communication Quick Reference for Spanish-Speaking Clients IV. Genetics V. Conversion Tables VI. Solutions to Review Exercises VII. Word Parts Alphabetized Word Parts and Meanings English Words and Corresponding Word Parts Bibliography Glossary/Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.11.2008 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Approx. 390 illustrations (400 in full color) |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 276 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4160-5627-0 / 1416056270 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4160-5627-0 / 9781416056270 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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