Publisher's Synopsis
Beginning medical and allied health students.
This student-friendly book is a basic introduction to over 700 commonly used medical terms and word elements (prefixes, suffixes, and stems). This is an excellent resource for new medical, nursing, and allied health students in medical terminology to use in the classroom or as a programmed review. The fourth edition includes the addition of pronunciations to word lists, case studies, and forensic and surgical reports as additional exercises. New chapters "Diagnostic Terms and Tools" and "Pharmacology Terms & Oncology Terms" have been added and the chapter on medical financial terms has been thoroughly updated.
