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Confused by medical terms? Don稚 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値l 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値l get a handle on how these mouthfuls are constructed, and discover how to decipher any medical term, no matter how complex or unusual. You値l also get plenty of help in pronouncing and remembering medical words, and you値l find out how and why the terminology changes from hospital to laboratory to pharmacy. You値l 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
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Beverley Henderson and Jennifer Lee Dorsey |
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