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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164027903321

Autore

Stanfield Peggy

Titolo

Essential medical terminology / / Peggy Stanfield, Y.H. Hui, Nanna Cross ; production editor, Jessica Steele Newfell ; cover and interior design, Kristin E. Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Massachusetts : , : Jones & Bartlett Learning, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-284-02229-3

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

610.1/4

Soggetti

Medicine

Medicine - Terminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Brief Contents""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to Fourth Edition""; ""Preface to First Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""How to Use This Book""; ""UNIT I Medical Terminology""; ""Chapter 1 Word Pronunciations""; ""Chapter 2 Word Parts and Word Building Rules""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Parts of a Medical Term""; ""Listing of Word Parts""; ""Prefixes, Word Roots with Combining Forms, and Suffixes""; ""Lesson two: progress Check Part A""; ""Lesson two: progress Check Part B""

""UNIT II Root Words, Medical Terminology, and Patient Care""""CHAPTER 3 Bacteria, Color, and Some Medical Terms""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Root Words for Bacteria""; ""Prefixes for Color""; ""Commonly Used Prefixes""; ""Lesson Two: Progress Check""; ""CHAPTER 4 Body Openings and Plural Endings""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Body Openings""; ""Plural Endings""; ""Lesson Two: Progress Check""; ""CHAPTER 5 Numbers, Positions, and Directions""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""

""Part 1: Prefixes for Numbers""""Part 2: Prefixes for Positions and Directions""; ""Part 3: Terms for Directions and Positions""; ""Units of Weight and Measurement""; ""Weights and Measures""; ""Common Weights and Measures""; ""Frequently Used Symbols""; ""Lesson Two:



Progress Check""; ""CHAPTER 6 Medical and Health Professions""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Scientific Studies""; ""Specialties and Specialists""; ""Physicians and Medical Specialties""; ""Other Health Professions""; ""Additional Professions""; ""Lesson Two: Progress Check""

""UNIT III Abbreviations""""CHAPTER 7 Medical Abbreviations""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Abbreviations for Services or Units in a Healthcare Facility""; ""Abbreviations for Frequencies""; ""Abbreviations for Units of Measure""; ""Abbreviations for Means of Adminstering Substances into the Body""; ""Abbreviations for Diet Orders""; ""Abbreviations for Activity and Toiletry""; ""Abbreviations for Laboratory Tests, X-Ray Studies, and Pulmonary Function""; ""Abbreviations for Miscellaneous Terms""; ""Lesson Two: Progress Check""

""CHAPTER 8 Diagnostic and Laboratory Abbreviations""""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Diagnostic Abbreviations""; ""Laboratory Abbreviations""; ""A List of Common Diagnostic and Laboratory Abbreviations""; ""Lesson Two: Progress Check""; ""UNIT IV Review""; ""CHAPTER 9 Review of Word Parts from Units I, II, and III""; ""Objectives""; ""Lesson One: Materials to Be Learned""; ""Review A: Suffixes""; ""Review B: Prefixes""; ""Review C: Root Words for Body Parts""; ""Review D: Descriptive Word Elements""; ""Review E: Additional Medical Terms""

""Lesson Two: Progress Check""