Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide

By Shirley Soltesz Steiner, Genevieve Love Smith, Shirley S. Steiner

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471233595
• ISBN13: 9780471233596
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book for people who want to learn medical terminology quickly!

I looked at a number of medical terminology books at the library before deciding to purchase Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, 4th edition. This book truly is great for people who need to learn medical terminology quickly. It also teaches a little about body systems. The author keeps the book interesting and makes learning medical terminology fun.

Wonderful help!

Being new to the field of medical transcription, this book did a great job of exposing me to how words are constructed. It breaks them down and helped me to learn the impressive vocabulary that's required. It's been a wonderful asset!!

Great Vocab Foundation for Med School

A nurse I worked with recommended this book to me and told me it would give me a great foundation for the world of medical jargon. It was very helpful and well-designed programmed learning that really gave me a head start in med school.

Quick Medical Terminology

Before starting a class at the local technical college, I used this book as a guide to find out if I could go back to school after 30 years. It was great - easy to understand and much better than the textbook we use in class. Highly recommended.

Good basic terminology, helps memorization

This is a great book for learning basic terminology. It helps you to be able to break words down and understand them. Lots of opportunity for review. This book was very helpful to me.