Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide

by Shirley Soltesz Steiner

Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With Quick Medical A Self-Teaching Guide , Fourth Edition, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more. Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples. The step-by-step, clearly structured format of Quick Medical Terminology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview. Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Quick Medical Terminology allows you to build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for practitioners and students who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

298 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[David Battiste]

Very good book for fast understanding of medical terminology. I finished in five days. I did notice a few inconsistencies and one chapter test was completely wrong. Otherwise it would be perfect. If you need to get an encompassing understanding of medical terminology quickly, this book does it.

[Michael]

Awful set up. Rote memorization of the Greek and Latin and doesn't even distinguish between the two (it really matters). Originally had Medical Terminology from a professor of Greek and it made a huge difference in comprehension. Using this book as a refresher was unfulfilling.

[Katsumi]

wow

[j v Susan]

Excellant Practice again 2015/Jun/July

[Cyndi D.]

Sadly, I will need to devote the next 6 months to job related study. I'm starting by brushing up on medical terminology.