Learning Medical Terminology: Worktext, A 9th Ed.

Description: Austrin begins teaching medical terminology by providing a foundation in the first four chapters. These chapters teach the word parts used to build medical terms and explain how to combine them into terms. Then, the remaining fourteen chapters present medical terminology as it relates to the various body systems. Austrin provides more anatomy coverage than any of our books and as much or more than its most direct competitors: Chabner, Fremgen, and Rice. Austrin's related terms listings - located at the ends of the body systems chapters - include anatomic terms, pathologic conditions, surgical procedures, and laboratory tests with their pronunciations and definitions. The assumption seems to be that students will remember the meanings of the word parts used to build the terms from their study of the first four foundation chapters. For the ninth edition, we have renamed (formerly called glossaries) and redesigned these sections - now called related terms - and moved them earlier in the chapter, so that their importance is more obvious.


Contents: Section 1 The Basic Foundation of Medical Terminology 1. An Introduction to Medical Terminology 2. Building a Medical Vocabulary 3. Adding to the Foundation Completing the Foundation Section 2 The Body Shell and Its Supports 5. Understanding the Body and Its Structure 6. Skeletal System: The Framework of the Body 7. Muscular System: The Moving Force 8. Integumentary System: The Skin and Its Accessory Structures Section 3 The Internal Mechanisms of the Body 9. Cardiovascular System: The Transports of the Body 10. Respiratory System: The Breath of Life 11. Gastrointestinal System: The Food Processor 12. Urinary System: Liquid Waste Processing 13. Reproductive System: The Cycle of Life Section 4 The Adaptive and Defense Mechanisms of the Body 14. Endocrine System: The Chemical Stimulators 15. Nervous System: The Central Processing Unit 16. Special Senses: The Sources of Information 17. Lymphatic and Immune Systems: The Defenders of the Body 18. Multiple-System Diseases Appendices A. Abbreviations and Symbols B. Latin and Greek Combining Forms for English Numbers C. Metric System and Equivalents D. Hospital Records and Reports E. Medical Specialties F. Medical Insurance G. Answers to exercises Bibliography