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The fun and easy way to understand, pronounce, and apply medical terminology
Don't know a carcinoma from a hematoma? This friendlyguide gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals, helping you master definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all medical fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, you'll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.
Recognize common root words — identify words that apply to body regions, organs, anatomy, and pathology
Pronounce and use terms with ease —grasp the phonics of medical terms and understand the context of words, from hospital to pharmacy to test lab
Break words down — understand unfamiliar words by defining their elements and recombining them; and get familiar with prefixes and suffixes, plurals and multiples
Get a handle on anatomy and systems — bone up on terms that describe and are related to the body's systems, from skeletal and muscular to gastrointestinal and endocrine
Learn the lingo — familiarize yourself with common terms used in the ER, OR, pharmacy, and lab
Get to the source— understand Greek and Latin sources of medical terms
Open the book and find:
Tips for understanding unfamiliar medical terms
Explanations of Greek and Latin roots and structures
Definitions of common prefixes and suffixes
Guidance in pronouncing medical terms
Word roots commonly used in hospitals, pharmacies, and labs
Terms for diseases, lab tests, and medications
Useful mnemonic devices
Helpful word-building activities
About the Author
Beverley Henderson, CMT, has 35 years of medical terminology and transcription experience in a hospital setting, and has taught and developed curricula for Medical Terminology courses at the college level.
Jennifer Dorsey is a writer, editor, and author of several books.
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- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (December 3, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470279656
- ISBN-13: 978-0470279656
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
What I mean by 'typical 'Dummies' book', is that there's quite a lot of fluff -- of this type: "[new term introduced] ... I know, it sounds a lot like [pick one: a new dance step. the name of a band. a delicious dessert.] But it's really not!" Cute, but pretty extraneous. As always, though, I adore Rich Tenant's cartoons. I don't know how he can pull off so many truly funny single-panel cartoons on *so many* different topics. (He does the cartoons for every 'Dummies' book I've read. Which has apparently been way too many.)
This book on medical terminology specifically also has *far* more repetition than is really helpful. Repetition is a good thing pedagogically; but what the author has chosen to repeat is to a great extent the terms one has already learned from watching endless re-runs of 'Scrubs'. I'd have preferred that the repetition be saved for the more obscure and/or conceptually difficult terms.
The Kindle format is brilliant for books like this, on account of the integrated dictionary. Not only does the New Oxford American Dictionary include quite a lot of medical terms (far more than expected; it's pretty cool); if there's an unfamiliar term *within* the dictionary definition, one can place the cursor next to *it* for a definition -- and still return to the main text by clicking the 'back' button. Sweet. I have loved not having to pop up to grab the giant American Heritage off the shelf for the purpose of double-checking those word histories that I'm curious about -- or for double-checking medical terms I 'make up' to test my comprehension as I read.
My one serious criticism of the Kindle version of the text regards table formatting -- which is extremely important in this book.
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