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J. P. K. Kritizinger - Medical Terminology for Students of the Health Professions

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Medical terminology for students of the health professions offers a systematic approach to explaining terminology to entry-level students of the health sciences, including students of medicine, dentistry, nursing, dietetics, occupational therapy, radiography, human movement sciences, speech-language pathology and audiology, and veterinary sciences.The focus of this book is on terms and study texts with clinical relevance that are commonly used in health and veterinary sciences practice, and the textbook includes exercises to further facilitate students comprehension of medical terminology.This book has six sections. The first contains an introductory chapter, followed by eight vocabulary chapters in section II, and six chapters on systems of the body in section III. A chapter is also included (in section IV) on veterinary science terminology for students of that profession. Section V deals with medical terms in context. Section VI contains lists of eponyms, term parts (with both their English and Afrikaans meanings), abbreviations (used in pharmaceutical prescriptions) as well as a comprehensive word list of medical terms.This book is designed in such a way that students who study this text over a period of 14 weeks will be well equipped to analyse and understand most medical terms. It will enable students to understand and use the highly technical terminology of the health and related sciences with confidence during their studies and professional careers.

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Published by Van Schaik Publishers
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First edition 2006
Second edition 2011
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AUTHORS

JPK Kritzinger
BA (PU for CHE), BD, MA, DLitt (Pret)

JP Bosman
BA (Hons), MA (Pret), THOD (NKP)

JH Meiring
MBChB, MPraxMed (Pret), LAkad (SA)

CJ Schumann
BA, SOD (Stell)

PH Abrahams
MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCR

LM Greyling
BCur, BSc (Hons) (Anat), MSc (Anat), DipNursEd (Pret)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Study texts

Study texts were taken with the permission of Professor Peter H. Abrahams from: Abrahams, Peter H. (MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCR), Thatcher, Matthew J. (FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), DMRD, DRCOG) & Spratt, Jonathan D. (MA, MB, BChir). 1995. Pocket examiner. Problem solving for tutorials in Clinical Anatomy. 2nd ed. Edinburgh, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Melbourne, New York and Tokyo: Churchill Livingstone.

Medical illustrations

Medical illustrations in this book are credited to Marinda Pretorius, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria.

Terminology of veterinary science

This chapter was authored by Professor A.J. Bezuidenhout, Professor H.B. Groenewald, Doctor M. Hornsveld, Professor J.T. Soley and Doctor P.H. Turner from the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria.

The following dictionaries were consulted throughout:

Puch, M.B. (Ed.). 2000. Stedmans medical dictionary. 27th ed. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Thomas, C.L. (Ed.). 1997. Tabers cyclopedic medical dictionary. 18th ed. Philadelphia: FA Davis Company.

Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology

The authors would like to thank Dr Salom Geertsema from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology of the University of Pretoria for her contribution with regards to the terminology of this study field.

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CONTENTS
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PREFACE

The lifeblood of every scientific specialised subject field is the language it uses to name its concepts with a view to meaningful communication within that field. Without communication the subject would be isolated, and development would inevitably and eventually cease, resulting in its demise.

A specialised subject field requires its own terminology, i.e. vocabulary specially designed for the subject.

In this regard the subject field of the health and veterinary sciences is no exception. As one of the oldest sciences developed by man, its terminology has been established over many centuries as far back as classical Greek and Latin, the two languages which today form the basis of the terminology used in modern health and veterinary sciences.

A course in medical terminology provides the student with a key to unlock this specialised language, often regarded as incomprehensible by the uninitiated. In the process of teaching and learning, the student develops

  • an appreciation for the language of medicine
  • a curiosity about the meanings and origin of medical and veterinary terms
  • a more meaningful assimilation of terminology
  • less dependency on medical dictionaries
  • an appreciation for related vocabularies, such as zoology and medical entomology, and aspects of botany, pharmacy, biochemistry and endocrinology.

It is the sincere wish of the authors that this book will contribute to making the students studies in the health and veterinary sciences a meaningful experience.

JH Meiring
October 2017

TERMIN-/-o-/LOG-/-y
The English word terminology literally refers to a study (-logy) of terms (TERMIN-). The Latin verb terminare means to set bounds to or to mark off by boundaries. Terminus was also the name of a Roman deity presiding over boundaries.

The English words term, terminal, terminate, terminus, determine, and determinism are among the derivatives of these Latin words.

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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Since prehistoric times man has, in one way or another, been involved in exercising ways and means to deal with disease. In primitive times this varied from using plants, herbs and vegetables to heal; to trying to extract the evil disease-causing intruder from the body.

Recorded history dawned when the calendar was established and writing was invented. These events also made recording the history of medicine possible. Medicines fascinating history has been documented from ancient times until today and covers the early Babylonian and Egyptian medicine, traditional medicine and surgery in the Orient (India, China, Japan), early Greek and Roman medicine, Arabian teaching of medicine, and eventually the phenomenal developments in medicine in modern times.

Modern medicine is, in many respects, indebted to developments in medicine during the Greek and Roman period. The Greco-Roman period in the history of medicine was marked by personalities whose influence on the development of medicine was invaluable.

Asclepios, who lived about 1200 bce , is said to have performed many miracles of healing. After his death he was deified and was worshipped in temples throughout Greece, where many people claimed to have been cured.

It was, however, the work of the early Greek philosophers rather than the priests of Asclepios that led people to refuse to be guided by superstition when seeking the reasons for illness and disease. During the sixth and fifth centuries bc , Pythagoras and Empedocles taught them to seek the strange ways of nature for themselves. They prepared the way for

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