Quick Medical Terminology: A Self–Teaching Guide (Wiley Self–Teaching Guides) - Softcover

Steiner, Shirley Soltesz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471233595 ISBN 13: 9780471233596

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2002

Synopsis

This is the timeless, easy to use resource, now revised and expanded. Over the course of thirty years and 350,000 copies, "Quick Medical Terminology" has become the reference of choice for health practitioners who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies. The Fourth Edition features new review exercises and tests, an expanded table of contents, new illustrations, and an accessible new design, keeping the classic medical reference up to date for the present generation of health workers. Using a unique word building system that begins with a review of the Greek and Latin word roots the building blocks of nearly all modern medical terminology, this self teaching guide allows readers to understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words. Nurses, medical secretaries, receptionists, transcribers, office managers, and lab technicians will find "Quick Medical Terminology, Fourth Edition" to be the most reader friendly and comprehensive medical desk reference available.

About this title

About the Author

SHIRLEY SOLTESZ STEINER, R.N., M.S., is an Instructional Technologist who has worked with leading corporations and innovators in the training field, including AT&T, Media Medica, Inc., and MetroMedia. She brings more than twenty years of experience to the design and development of self-instructional, classroom, and on-the-job training programs. Steiner revised the third edition of Quick Medical Terminology (Wiley).

From the Back Cover

• Expand your working medical vocabulary
• Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques
• Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks

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 Terminology: 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471233595
• ISBN 13: 9780471233596
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 320