Building a medical vocabulary
Subtitle: with Spanish translations
By: Peggy C. Leonard.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2009
Place of publication: St. Louis, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9781416056270
Subjects: Medicine -- Terminology; Human anatomy -- Terminology; English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Spanish language -- Conversation and phrase books (for medical personnel); Terminology as Topic -- Programmed Instruction
Genres: Terminology.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Conversation and phrase books (for medical personnel); Programmed Instruction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tools for building medical terms : word building, word parts, forming plurals, and pronunciation; title: Medicine and its specialties : using combining forms to build terms about medical specialties; title: Diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical terms : using suffixes to build medical terms; title: Diseases and disorders : using suffixes to build terms about diseases and disorders; title: Prefixes : using prefixes, suffixes and combining forms to build medical terms; title: Organization of the body : the body's organizational scheme, anatomic and directional terms, body regions & cavities; title: Body fluids and immunity : cellular needs, blood and its terminology, and the immune system; title: Body systems; title: Cardiovascular and lymphatic systems; title: Respiratory system; title: Digestive system; title: Urinary system; title: Reproductive system; title: Reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases; title: Musculoskeletal system; title: Nervous system and psychological disorders; title: Integumentary system; title: Endocrine system; title: Review of all chapters.