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Medical Language STAT!
Susan M. Turley, MA, BSN, RN, ART, CMT
James Allen, College of DuPage

ISBN-10: 0135019567
ISBN-13: 9780135019566

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 07/08/2008

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From the best-selling author of Medical Language 1e,  this pocket-sized book is an essential reference guide for any health care professional. Medical Language STAT! provides readers with all of the tools needed for success when analyzing medical terms, forming medical plurals, and identifying the leading prescription drugs.  This portable dictionary makes looking up terms effortless and easy with abbreviation tables, images, and much more!

 

With Medical Language STAT!, you will be able to quickly:

 

  • Look up medical word parts and their definitions
  • Locate medical word and phrase definitions
  • Break down and build medical words
  • Pronounce medical words and identify pronunciations that sound alike
  • Define medical abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
  • Analyze laboratory tests, values, and their meanings
  • Review full-color illustrations showing the anatomy of the body systems

Section 1:  Introduction to Medical Language                                                          

A.      Medical Word Parts and Characteristics                                       

B.     Building Medical Words                                        

C.    Analyzing and Defining Medical Words                                                

D.    Medical Word Singular and Plural Nouns                                          

 

Section 2:  Medical Word Parts and Definitions                                                       

A.  Medical Word Parts and Definitions                                               

B.  Definitions and Medical Word Parts                                                

 

Section 3:  Glossary of Medical Words and Phrases                             

 

Section 4:  Medical Word Synonyms                                                 

 

Section 5:  Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols                               

A.     Abbreviations/Acronyms and Definitions                                         

B.     Definitions and Abbreviations/Acronyms                                        

C.    Medical Symbols and Definitions                                                                 

D.    Definitions and Medical Symbols                                

 

Section 6:  Laboratory Tests and Values                                       

 

Section 7:  Drug Categories                                                             

 

Section 8:  Pronunciation of Medical Words                                                             

A.     Medical Word Pronunciations                                                         

B.     Sound-Alike Medical Word Pronunciations                                      

 

Section 9:  Illustrated Figures and Tables                                            

A.     Bone Table

B.     Table of Illustration Labels

C.    Full-color Illustrations of Body Systems

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