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The fun and easy way to understand, pronounce, and apply medical terminologyDon'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
Synopsis
Medical Terminology For Dummiesgets students and interested readers up to speed on medical terminology fundamentals, helping them master definitions, pronunciations, and the application of terms across all medical fields. Once people understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, they can use this knowledge to approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.
Synopsis
The fun and easy way to understand, pronounce, and apply medical terminology
Uniform medical terminology is a critical part of the language used in all health care fields. From the language used by doctors and veterinarians to transcriptionists, drug and equipment sales reps, and even attorneys and insurance caseworkers, every medical term has a standard pronunciation, definition, and spelling. Medical Terminology For Dummies gets students and interested readers up to speed on medical terminology fundamentals, helping them master definitions, pronunciations, and the application of terms across all medical fields. Once people understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, they can use this knowledge to approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.
Beverley Henderson (Hamilton, ON, Canada) has been teaching medical terminology courses for 35 years to students of all levels. She has extensive curriculum development experience as well. Jennifer Dorsey (Edwardsville, IL) is a writer, editor, and author of several books.
Synopsis
Confused by medical terms? Don’t know a carcinoma from a hematoma?
Medical Terminology For Dummies gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals and helps you master medical definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all health care fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, you’ll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.
This plain-English guide to language that can be just plain confusing clears up the meanings of the Greek and Latin sources of medical terms. You’ll get a handle on how these mouthfuls are constructed, and discover how to decipher any medical term, no matter how complex or unusual. You’ll also get plenty of help in pronouncing and remembering medical words, and you’ll find out how and why the terminology changes from hospital to laboratory to pharmacy. You’ll discover how to:
- Understand word foundations and origins
- Grasp the essential meanings of unfamiliar terms
- Define common prefixes and suffixes
- Identify and pronounce medical terms
- Deconstruct words to grasp definitions
- Use plurals and multiples with ease
- Describe medical conditions accurately
- Bone up on terms that describe the anatomy
- Use mnemonic devices to remember medical terms
- Know when words refer to diseases, injuries, treatments, and more
- Use medical terminology in the real world
Complete with a list of essential references on medical terminology as well as helpful word-building activities Medical Terminology For Dummies puts you in the know in no time.
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Living for Linguistics.
Chapter 1: Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology.
Chapter 2: Medical Terminology: The How and Why.
Chapter 3: Introducing the Big Three: Prefi xes, Roots, and Suffixes.
Chapter 4: Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals — Oh My!
Chapter 5: Say What? Pronunciation and Usage.
Part II: Mapping Words and Bodies.
Chapter 6: It Was in the Beginning: Prefixes.
Chapter 7: So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes.
Chapter 8: Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition.
Chapter 9: Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words.
Chapter 10: An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body.
Chapter 11: All Systems Go: When Systems Combine.
Part III: In Terms of Anatomy.
Chapter 12: Boning Up on the Skeletal System.
Chapter 13: Getting Ripped: The Muscular System.
Chapter 14: Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair.
Chapter 15: It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems.
Part IV: Let’s Get Some Physiology Terminology.
Chapter 16: The Heart of the Matter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems.
Chapter 17: Just Breathe: The Respiratory System.
Chapter 18: Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System.
Chapter 19: Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System.
Chapter 20: Calming Down: The Nervous System.
Part V: Name That Plumbing.
Chapter 21: When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System.
Chapter 22: Checking the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System.
Chapter 23: A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System.
Part VI: The Par t of Tens.
Chapter 24: Ten Essential Medical Terminology References.
Chapter 25: Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices.
Chapter 26: Ten Fun Word-Building Activities.
Appendix: Prefixes and Suffixes.
Index.