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Summary

Confused by medical terms? Don't know a carcinoma from a hematoma? Medical Terminology For Dummies gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals and helps you master medical definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all health care fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, you'll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with confidence.This plain-English guide to language that can be just plain confusing clears up the meanings of the Greek and Latin sources of medical terms. You'll get a handle on how these mouthfuls are constructed, and discover how to decipher any medical term, no matter how complex or unusual. You'll also get plenty of help in pronouncing and remembering medical words, and you'll find out how and why the terminology changes from hospital to laboratory to pharmacy. You'll discover how to: Understand word foundations and origins Grasp the essential meanings of unfamiliar terms Define common prefixes and suffixes Identify and pronounce medical terms Deconstruct words to grasp definitions Use plurals and multiples with ease Describe medical conditions accurately Bone up on terms that describe the anatomy Use mnemonic devices to remember medical terms Know when words refer to diseases, injuries, treatments, and more Use medical terminology in the real worldComplete with a list of essential references on medical terminology as well as helpful word-building activities Medical Terminology For Dummies puts you in the know in no time.

Introduction
Living for Linguistics
Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology
Medical Terminology: The How and Why
Introducing the Big Three: Prefi xes, Roots, and Suffixes
Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals - Oh My!
Say What? Pronunciation and Usage
Mapping Words and Bodies
It Was in the Beginning: Prefixes
So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes
Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition
Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words
An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body
All Systems Go: When Systems Combine
In Terms of Anatomy
Boning Up on the Skeletal System
Getting Ripped: The Muscular System
Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair
It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems
Let's Get Some Physiology Terminology
The Heart of the Matter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
Just Breathe: The Respiratory System
Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System
Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System
Calming Down: The Nervous System
Name That Plumbing
When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System
Checking the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System
A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System
The Par t of Tens
Ten Essential Medical Terminology References
Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices
Ten Fun Word-Building Activities
Appendix: Prefixes and Suffixes
Index
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