Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, 4th Edition
- Expand your working medical vocabulary
- Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques
- Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks
Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies
What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, Fourth Edition, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more.
Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples. The step-by-step, clearly structured format of Quick Medical Terminology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview.
Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Quick Medical Terminology allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for practitioners and students who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies.
Objectives of the Program.
The Word-Building Strategy.
List of Illustrations.
1 Basic Word Roots and Common Suffixes.
2 More Word Roots, Suffixes, and Prefixes.
3 Basic Anatomical Terms and Abnormal Conditions.
4 The Genitals and Urinary Tract.
5 The Gastrointestinal Tract.
6 The Heart.
7 Symptoms, Diagnoses, Treatments, Communication, Qualifiers,and Statistics.
8 Growth and Development, and Body Orientation.
9 Gynecology, Pregnancy, and Childbirth.
10 The Eye and the Respiratory Tract.
Final Self-Test I.
Final Self-Test II.
Appendix A: Medical Abbreviations.
Appendix B: Forming Plurals.
Index ofWords and Word Parts.