Leonard, Peggy C.

Building a medical vocabulary : with Spanish translations / Peggy C. Leonard. - 7th ed. - St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders, c2009. - xv, 696 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 /3/4 in.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 655-658) and index.

Tools for building medical terms : word building, word parts, forming plurals, and pronunciation -- Medicine and its specialties : using combining forms to build terms about medical specialties -- Diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical terms : using suffixes to build medical terms -- Diseases and disorders : using suffixes to build terms about diseases and disorders -- Prefixes : using prefixes, suffixes and combining forms to build medical terms -- Organization of the body : organizational scheme, anatomic and directional terms, body regions and cavities -- Body fluids and immunity : cellular needs, blood and its terminology, and the immune system -- Body systems -- Cardiovascular and lymphatic systems -- Respiratory system -- Digestive system -- Urinary system -- Reproductive system -- Reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases -- Musculoskeletal system -- Nervous system and psychological disorders -- Integumentary system -- Endocrine system -- Review of chapters 1 through 17.

9781416056270 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008025742


Medicine--Terminology.
Human anatomy--Terminology.
English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Spanish language--Conversation and phrase books (for medical personnel)
Terminology as Topic--Programmed Instruction.

R123 / .L46 2009