Description
Medical Terminology: An Illustrated Guide, Ninth Edition helps readers develop a fundamental knowledge of the medical terminology necessary for a career in any healthcare setting.
The text opens with a general introduction to word parts and the human body as a whole, followed by an overview of diseases and treatments. Each subsequent chapter on the individual body systems begins with an illustrated overview of the system with definitions of key terms relevant to that system. Tables of word parts and exercises on using them follow. The sequence of the systems chapters follows the same order as that found in a tradition A&P courses.Turning to the abnormal, a section on diseases and treatments is included, followed by definitions of related key terms.

Table of Contents
Part  I  Introduction to Medical Terminology
Chapter  1  Concepts, Suffixes, and Prefixes of Medical Terminology
Chapter  2  Body Structure
Chapter  3  Disease and Treatment
Part  II  Body Systems
Chapter  4  Integumentary System
Chapter  5  Skeletal System
Chapter  6  Muscular System
Chapter  7  Nervous System and Mental Health
Chapter  8  Special Senses: Ear and Eye
Chapter  9  Endocrine System
Chapter  10  Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
Chapter  11  Blood and Immunity
Chapter  12  Respiratory System
Chapter  13  Digestive System
Chapter  14  Urinary System
Chapter  15  Male Reproductive System
Chapter  16  Female Reproductive System; Pregnancy and Birth