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Quick & Easy Medical Terminology
Self-paced text reviews the key terms for specific body areas and breaks down the terms into component parts. Includes learning exercises; Spanish medical terms; and new chapters on the integumentary, nervous, and endocrine systems, and psychologic disorders. Wire-spiral binding.
400 pages, Spiral-bound
First published February 1, 1990
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September 7, 2021
My niece, who is a graduate of a school for medical transcription, is taking a course in medical terminology for one of her CE credits this year. The course uses this book as its textbook.
This book is fine if you've have little to no experience with medical terminology. However, for those like my niece, who have graduated from a school in which medical terminology was covered, are going to find the book very easy going. They are going to know all the words presented and how to form plurals, include a prefix, suffix, etc.
This book is more suited to those who have no experience with medical terminology or even with anatomy and physiology. They probably will find the rules for forming plurals, etc., a little confusing at first, but they needn't worry. All of it gets a lot easier with a little exposure to the material and seems to come naturally. Eventually.
Beside the basics, like combining words, how to form plurals (remember, medical terms come from the Greek or Latin, so don't follow usual English rules of pluralization), how to form prefixes and suffixes, etc., this book also explains medical terminology body system by body system, which is great for those with no exposure to human anatomy and physiology. There are also several appendices at the end of the book that should be very helpful to anyone, experienced or neophyte.
All-in-all, this is a very good book for learning medical terminology. It's just a little too basic for what my niece needs.
This book is fine if you've have little to no experience with medical terminology. However, for those like my niece, who have graduated from a school in which medical terminology was covered, are going to find the book very easy going. They are going to know all the words presented and how to form plurals, include a prefix, suffix, etc.
This book is more suited to those who have no experience with medical terminology or even with anatomy and physiology. They probably will find the rules for forming plurals, etc., a little confusing at first, but they needn't worry. All of it gets a lot easier with a little exposure to the material and seems to come naturally. Eventually.
Beside the basics, like combining words, how to form plurals (remember, medical terms come from the Greek or Latin, so don't follow usual English rules of pluralization), how to form prefixes and suffixes, etc., this book also explains medical terminology body system by body system, which is great for those with no exposure to human anatomy and physiology. There are also several appendices at the end of the book that should be very helpful to anyone, experienced or neophyte.
All-in-all, this is a very good book for learning medical terminology. It's just a little too basic for what my niece needs.
December 9, 2013
This truly was a simple and easy book to learn word roots. It helped me when taking the GRE and I imagine I'll never be confused again when a doctor throws a big and bad sounding term at me.
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