Barbara Janson Cohen - Medical Terminology: An Illustrated Guide

th edition Barbara Janson Cohen, MEd Ann DePetris, MSA, RN, CCRP Senior Acquisitions Editor: Jonathan Joyce Product Development Editor: Staci Wolfson Editorial Assistant: Tish Rogers Marketing Manager: Leah Thomson Production Project Manager: Priscilla Crater Design Coordinator: Terry Mallon Art Director: Jennifer Clements Manufacturing Coordinator: Margie Orzech Prepress Vendor: Aptara, Inc. 8th edition Copyright 2017 Wolters Kluwer. Copyright 2014 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including as photocopies or scanned-in or other electronic copies, or utilized by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the copyright owner, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Its to all of you I dedicate this edition. Ann DePetris

K nowledge of medical terminology is fundamental to a wide variety of healthcare fields. This book is designed to satisfy the basic learning requirements needed to practice in any health career setting. In the course of your training and future careers, you will need to learn thousands of new terms. The job might be overwhelming if not for learning the skills of dividing the words into their component parts. These roots, suffixes, and prefixes appear over and over in different terms but retain the same meanings.

Knowing these meanings will help you define and remember a host of words. This process is like using a set of building blocks to assemble different structures. Using a more scientific example, its like using the four bases in DNA to code for all the amino acids needed to make proteins. After the introductory sections, each chapter begins with an illustrated overview of a specific body system with definitions of the key terms related to that system. Tables of word parts and exercises on using them follow. Turning to the abnormal, a section on diseases and treatments is included, followed by definitions of relevant key terms.

The section of supplementary terms includes words and phrases that are good to know if time allows or if someone is particularly interested in that specialty. The sequence of the systems chapters differs slightly from that found in traditional anatomy and physiology books. The organization emphasizes their clinical importance, starting with the cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive systems and continuing with systems treated in more specialized fields, such as the urinary, reproductive, and musculoskeletal systems. The chapters can be taken out of order once the introductory units are completed. We have tried to make this book easy to use and full of reinforcing drills. We have also included many phonetic pronunciations so you can recognize technical terms when they are spoken and can comfortably use them yourself.

The online student learning resources offer many additional activities and an audio glossary. Each chapter is enlivened with a short opening case study. These may have some words and abbreviations that are unfamiliar to you, especially at the start of the book. They are included to spark your interest in the chapter material, and give you a sense of medical situations and language. Dont be concerned if you dont understand them completely. Return to them after you study the chapter, or even later chapters, and see if they are more understandable.

You are probably at the beginning of a long journey to gain accomplishment in your chosen field. We hope that this book will aid you in that endeavor and provide a basis on which to build your career. Barbara CohenAnn DePetris

I n our constant quest to improve the quality of Medical Terminology: An Illustrated Guide, we rely on the advice and talents of many people. First, we want to acknowledge the observant instructors and students who take the time to suggest improvements in the text. Also we thank the reviewers, who make many valuable suggestions for revisions. The clinicians who contributed current information in their respective fields include Margaret O.