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with Spanish Translations
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Seventh Edition
By
Peggy Leonard, BA, MT, MEd, Chesterfield, MO
Description
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.
Contents
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
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 712 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-5627-0
ISBN-10: 1-4160-5627-0
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 20 Feb 2010
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