Medical Terminology
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- 1How Medical Words Are BuiltThe Four Building Blocks, Rules of Assembly and the Habit of Decoding, Roots Worth Knowing — and the Ones That Trip Everyone
- 2Suffixes: Conditions, Procedures and SpecialtiesWhat a Suffix Actually Decides, Suffixes That Name a Condition, Suffixes of Looking, Recording and Measuring
- 3Prefixes: Position, Number, Time and NegationWhat a Prefix Is and What It Does, Prefixes of Position and Direction, Prefixes of Number, Size and Quantity
- 4Body Structure, Directional Terms and PlanesFrom Cell to Organism: the Levels of Organization, Anatomical Position and Directional Terms, Planes, Sections and Clinical Positions
- 5The Integumentary SystemSkin, Layers and Appendages: The Core Combining Forms, Color, Lesions and the Language of Description, Pathology: Infection, Inflammation and Growth
- 6The Musculoskeletal SystemBone, Cartilage and Marrow: the Core Roots, Mapping the Skeleton, Bone by Bone, Joints, Muscles and the Tissue Between
- 7The Cardiovascular SystemThe Heart: Layers, Chambers and Valves, Vessels, Circulation and Blood Pressure, The Language of Cardiovascular Disease
- 8Blood, the Lymphatic System and ImmunityThe Vocabulary of Blood, Red Cells, Oxygen and the Anemias, White Cells, Platelets and the Language of Clotting
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- 9The Respiratory SystemWalking the Airway: The Combining Forms, The Grammar of Breathing: Suffixes, Prefixes and Plurals, What Goes Wrong: Respiratory Pathology
- 10The Digestive SystemThe Alimentary Canal, Mouth to Anus, The Accessory Organs: Liver, Gallbladder and Pancreas, Signs, Symptoms and Pathology
- 11The Urinary SystemThe Tract, End to End, Reading the Urine: The -uria Family, Disorders of the Kidney
- 12The Reproductive Systems, Obstetrics and NeonatologyThe Female Reproductive System and Its Combining Forms, The Male Reproductive System and Its Combining Forms, Pathology of the Reproductive Tracts
- 13The Nervous System, Psychiatry and the Special SensesThe word parts that build the nervous system, When the wiring fails: neurologic pathology, Looking inside: neurologic tests, imaging and surgery
- 14The Endocrine System, Abbreviations and DocumentationGlands, Hormones and the Language of Chemical Control, The Pituitary, Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands, The Adrenal Glands, the Pancreas and the Gonads