Ebook: Medical Terminology for Dummies®

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.Content:
Chapter 1 Scrubbing in to Master Medical Terminology (pages 7–16):
Chapter 2 Medical Terminology: The How and Why (pages 17–23):
Chapter 3 Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffxes (pages 25–35):
Chapter 4 Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals ? Oh My! (pages 37–49):
Chapter 5 Say What? Pronunciation and Usage (pages 51–59):
Chapter 6 As it was in the Beginning: Preffixes (pages 61–72):
Chapter 7 So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes (pages 73–80):
Chapter 8 Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition (pages 81–90):
Chapter 9 Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words (pages 91–99):
Chapter 10 An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body (pages 101–110):
Chapter 11 All Systems Go: When Systems Combine (pages 111–120):
Chapter 12 Boning Up on the Skeletal System (pages 121–139):
Chapter 13 Getting Ripped: The Muscular System (pages 141–153):
Chapter 14 Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair (pages 155–167):
Chapter 15 It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems (pages 169–186):
Chapter 16 The Heart of the Matter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems (pages 187–210):
Chapter 17 Just Breathe: The Respiratory System (pages 211–226):
Chapter 18 Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System (pages 227–243):
Chapter 19 Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System (pages 245–260):
Chapter 20 Calming Down: The Nervous System (pages 261–273):
Chapter 21 When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System. (pages 275–289):
Chapter 22 Checking the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System (pages 291–302):
Chapter 23 A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System (pages 303–320):
Chapter 24 Ten Essential Medical Terminology References (pages 321–326):
Chapter 25 Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices (pages 327–330):
Chapter 26 Ten Fun Word?Building Activities (pages 331–335):