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.