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Quick Medical Terminology
A Self-Teaching GuideWiley Self-Teaching Guides, Band 187 4. Aufl.
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12,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wiley |
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| Veröffentl.: | 05.08.2003 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780471480822 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 320 |
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Beschreibungen
<ul> <li>Expand your working medical vocabulary</li> <li>Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques</li> <li>Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks</li> </ul> <p><b>Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies</b></p> <p>What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With <i>Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide</i>, Fourth Edition, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more.</p> <p>Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples. The step-by-step, clearly structured format of Quick Medical Terminology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview.</p> <p>Like all Self-Teaching Guides, <i>Quick Medical Terminology</i> allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for practitioners and students who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies.</p>
To the Reader.<br /> <br /> Objectives of the Program.<br /> <br /> Pronunciation Key.<br /> <br /> The Word-Building Strategy.<br /> <br /> List of Illustrations.<br /> <br /> 1 Basic Word Roots and Common Suffixes.<br /> <br /> 2 More Word Roots, Suffixes, and Prefixes.<br /> <br /> 3 Basic Anatomical Terms and Abnormal Conditions.<br /> <br /> 4 The Genitals and Urinary Tract.<br /> <br /> 5 The Gastrointestinal Tract.<br /> <br /> 6 The Heart.<br /> <br /> 7 Symptoms, Diagnoses, Treatments, Communication, Qualifiers,and Statistics.<br /> <br /> 8 Growth and Development, and Body Orientation.<br /> <br /> 9 Gynecology, Pregnancy, and Childbirth.<br /> <br /> 10 The Eye and the Respiratory Tract.<br /> <br /> Review Sheets.<br /> <br /> Final Self-Test I.<br /> <br /> Final Self-Test II.<br /> <br /> Appendix A: Medical Abbreviations.<br /> <br /> Appendix B: Forming Plurals.<br /> <br /> Index ofWords and Word Parts.
<b>SHIRLEY SOLTESZ STEINER</b>, R.N., M.S., is an Instructional Technologist who has worked with leading corporations and innovators in the training field, including AT&T, Media Medica, Inc., and MetroMedia. She brings more than twenty years of experience to the design and development of self-instructional, classroom, and on-the-job training programs. Steiner revised the third edition of <i>Quick Medical Terminology</i> (Wiley).
<ul> <li>Expand your working medical vocabulary</li> <li>Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques</li> <li>Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks</li> </ul> <p>Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies</p> <p>What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, Fourth Edition, you’ll discover the answers to these questions and many more.</p> <p>Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples. The step-by-step, clearly structured format of Quick Medical Terminology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview.</p> <p>Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Quick Medical Terminology allows you to build gradually on what you have learned–at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for practitioners and students who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies.</p>
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