Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meaning of Medical Terms - Softcover

Casselman, W.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850707715 ISBN 13: 9781850707714

Publisher: CRC Press, 1998

Synopsis

This dictionary explains the original meanings and correct use of the 500 Greek and Latin words and word parts that make up 98% of all medical terms used today. It stimulates better, quicker comprehension of medical terminology with less grinding memory work and is the ideal way for students to learn how medical words are formed from Latin and Greek roots and how to construct a medical vocabulary for both old and new medical words. It shows how to break long medical words into their simple Greek and Latin roots and helps solve the mystery of medical jargon by supplying a logical system for understanding terminology. Also, it is the first work of its kind to open up access for doctors to understanding the whole of medical terminology, regardless of specialty. And because it is a totally new dictionary readers can be assured of learning true etymologies and accurate meanings instead of the notoriously inaccurate and misleading derivations copied from one so-called standard dictionary to the other over the years.

Example: "cholecystectomy": chole = gall + cyst = bladder + ec = out + tomy = cutting; so cholecystectomy is the surgical excision, or cutting out, of the gallbladder!

About this title

Synopsis

Suitable for both office-based and hospital-based practitioners, this medical dictionary shows how to break large medical words into their recognizable component parts and, thereby, understand their meaning. It bridges the gap between the different fields of medicine and specialty areas by defining the building-block terms from Greek and Latin, and explaining the rules that bring them together to form precise medical meanings. The book focuses on the 500 Latin and Greek words and word-parts that make up the bulk of the more than 50,000 terms used in medicine today as a suitable method of comprehending and permanently remembering the true meanings of technical terms. The dictionary contains quizzes, tests and programmed learning modules to serve as a combination ready-reference and self-teaching word guide for all medical practitioners.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1850707715
• ISBN 13: 9781850707714
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436