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Mastering and Applying Medical Terminology in Practice
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Source ISBN 9781119625513
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Sejal Learning Systems rebuilt the book as a course: objectives first, then short video, worked examples, and practice with real feedback. It runs on Coursera at your own pace, with a certificate on completion.
Mastering and Applying Medical Terminology in Practice is a self-paced online course built from the Wiley title of the same name.
What this course covers
- Introduction
- Part 1: Living for Linguistics
- Chapter 1: Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology
- Chapter 2: Medical Terminology: The How and Why
- Chapter 3: Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
- Chapter 4: Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals — Oh My!
- Chapter 5: Say What? Pronunciation and Usage
- Part 2: Mapping Words and Bodies
- Chapter 6: As It Was in the Beginning: Prefixes
- Chapter 7: So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes
- Chapter 8: Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition
- Chapter 9: Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words
- Chapter 10: An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body
- Chapter 11: All Systems Go: When Systems Combine
- Part 3: In Terms of Anatomy
- Chapter 12: Boning Up on the Skeletal System
- Chapter 13: Getting Ripped: The Muscular System
- Chapter 14: Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair
- Chapter 15: It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems
- Part 4: Let’s Get Some Physiology Terminology
- Chapter 16: The Heart of the Matter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
- Chapter 17: Just Breathe: The Respiratory System
- Chapter 18: Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System
- Chapter 19: Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System
- Chapter 20: Calming Down: The Nervous System
- Part 5: Name That Plumbing
- Chapter 21: When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System
- Chapter 22: Check the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System
- Chapter 23: A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System
- Part 6: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 24: Ten Essential Medical Terminology References
- Chapter 25: Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices
- Chapter 26: Ten Sets of Terminology Tongue-Twisting Diseases
- Chapter 27: Top Ten Crazy-Hard-to-Spell Medical Terms
- Appendix: Handy Study Guide