Authors: Peggy C. Leonard
ISBN-13: 9781416056270, ISBN-10: 1416056270
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Date Published: October 2008
Edition: 7th Edition
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.
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