Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide (Google eBook)

Shirley Soltesz Steiner

John Wiley & Sons, Aug 19, 2003 - Medical - 320 pages

• Expand your working medical vocabulary
• Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques
• Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks

Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies

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.

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.

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.

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if you are already in the medical field its a plus, if not it's a minus. i'm not in the medical field so it wasn't what I can use without the assistant of my Sister who is an instructor for billing and coding. ...

Contents

• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 1 Basic Word Roots and Common Suffixes: 1
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 2 More Word Roots Suffixes and Prefixes: 21
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 3 Basic Anatomical Terms and Abnormal Conditions: 43
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 4 The Genitals and Urinary Tract: 65
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 5 The Gastrointestinal Tract: 95
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 6 The Heart: 115
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 7 Symptoms Diagnoses Treatments Communication Qualifiers and Statistics: 139
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 8 Growth and Development and Body Orientation: 169
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 9 Gynecology Pregnancy and Childbirth: 195
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition 10 The Eye and the Respiratory Tract: 223
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition Review Sheets: 249
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition Final SelfTest I: 279
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition Final SelfTest II: 283
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition Appendix A Medical Abbreviations: 287
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition Appendix B Forming Plurals: 289
• A SelfTeaching Guide 4th Edition Index of Words and Word Parts: 293

About the author

SHIRLEY SOLTESZ STEINER, 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 Quick Medical Terminology (Wiley).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide; Volume 187 of Wiley Self-Teaching Guides
• Author: Shirley Soltesz Steiner
• Edition: 4, illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003
• ISBN: 0471480827, 9780471480822
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Dictionaries & Terminology