Medical Terminology: A Self-learning Text

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Mosby, 1999 - Medical - 570 pages
A combination text and workbook, Medical Terminology: A Self-Learning Text uses word roots to build term definitions. A high exercise to test ratiogives ample opportunity for students to check their comprehension and facilitates self-study or guided-study courses. By emphasizing anatomic terms, using an organ-systemapproach, and by assuming no prior knowledge, Birmingham is broad-based enough to apply to all allied health fields. Thus it is truly an essentials text.
  • Additional special applications chapters
  • Real-life applications of terminology with translation exercises
  • Expanded glossary and terms
  • Updated style for visual ease and clarity
  • More than triple the number of illustrations from the second edition, allow the reader to visualise important anatomic structures
  • Special Applications chapters
  • Terms peculiar to common allied health disciplines are grouped in 6 chapters in a new section
  • Use of fun exercisesto enable quicker learning
  • Chapter exercise answers are grouped in the back of this edition and are perforated for those instructors who do not wish students to have access to them
  • From inside the book

    Contents

    Basics
    1
    Prefixes
    11
    Suffixes
    25
    Copyright

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    Common terms and phrases

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