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From the best-selling author of Medical Language 1e, this pocket-sized book is an essential reference guide for any health care professional. Medical Language STAT! provides readers with all of the tools needed for success when analyzing medical terms, forming medical plurals, and identifying the leading prescription drugs. This portable dictionary makes looking up terms effortless and easy with abreviation tables, images, and much more! It can be used as a companion to Susan Turley's Medical Language or on its own.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction to Medical Language
A. Medical Word Parts and Characteristics
B. Building Medical Words
C. Analyzing and Defining Medical Words
D. Medical Word Singular and Plural Nouns
Section 2: Medical Word Parts and Definitions
A. Medical Word Parts and Definitions
B. Definitions and Medical Word Parts
Section 3: Glossary of Medical Words and Phrases
Section 4: Medical Word Synonyms
Section 5: Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
A. Abbreviations/Acronyms and Definitions
B. Definitions and Abbreviations/Acronyms
C. Medical Symbols and Definitions
D. Definitions and Medical Symbols
Section 6: Laboratory Tests and Values
Section 7: Drug Categories
Section 8: Pronunciation of Medical Words
A. Medical Word Pronunciations
B. Sound-Alike Medical Word Pronunciations
Section 9: Illustrated Figures and Tables
A. Bone Table
B. Table of Illustration Labels
C. Full-color Illustrations of Body Systems