Author | Henderson, Beverley |
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Table Of Content | Introduction 1 Part I: Living for Linguistics 5 Chapter 1: Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology 7 Chapter 2: Medical Terminology: The How and Why 13 Chapter 3: Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes 19 Chapter 4: Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals — Oh My! 31 Chapter 5: Say What? Pronunciation and Usage 45 Part II: Mapping Words and Bodies 55 Chapter 6: As It Was in the Beginning: Prefixes 57 Chapter 7: So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes 69 Chapter 8: Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition 75 Chapter 9: Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words 85 Chapter 10: An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body 95 Chapter 11: All Systems Go: When Systems Combine 109 Part III: In Terms of Anatomy 119 Chapter 12: Boning Up on the Skeletal System 121 Chapter 13: Getting Ripped: The Muscular System 139 Chapter 14: Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair 153 Chapter 15: It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems 167 Part IV: Let’s Get Some Physiology Terminology 185 Chapter 16: The Hear t of the Mat ter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems 187 Chapter 17: Just Breathe: The Respiratory System 211 Chapter 18: Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System 227 Chapter 19: Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System 245 Chapter 20: Calming Down: The Nervous System 261 Part V: Name That Plumbing 275 Chapter 21: When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System 277 Chapter 22: Check the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System 291 Chapter 23: A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System 305 Part VI: The Part of Tens 325 Chapter 24: Ten Essential Medical Terminology References 327 Chapter 25: Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices 331 Chapter 26: Ten Sets of Terminology Tongue-Twisting Diseases 335 Appendix: Prefixes and Suffixes 341 Index 345 |
Publish Date | 16 Jan 2015 |