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Summary: Excellent study book.
Review: This book is used for Medical Terminology at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas. The book has an easy-to-follow format that helps a person like me, who has no background in the medical service field. I am using the book to prepare me for a career in sign interpretation. Thanks to a great study book, I no longer have "malaise" about medical nomenclature.
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Summary: The Language of Medicine
Review: This book was purchased for use by the Certified Technicians at our Hospital but the Pharmacists were also impressed with it and often refer to it in our library. It was more helpful than the Medical Terminology Course I had taken.
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Summary: A Medical Student's Opinion
Review: Throughout my first year of med school I was always looking for a logical way to remember all of the terms we needed to learn. I looked for a lot of books that were similar to this one but this one is by far the best. It gives you a very straightforward way to look at medical terms. For instance, sialadenectomy means removal of the salivary gland. How do I know this? -ectomy means removal, sial means salivary, aden means gland. Trust me you will find a lot of other words that have sial, aden, and ectomy in them and you will be able to figure out what they mean. There are so many more examples that I don't want to bother going into them. Basically if you memorize the 1000 or so medical root words that are presented in this book, you will probably have mastery of over 30,000 medical terms.I used this book between my first and second year of med school. I would recommend other med school students to do this as well. This book would be very time consuming to go through if you had minimal knowledge of the human body. I would say it would take someone an entire month (4-5 hours a day) to go through this book well if they don't know anything about medicine. It should take a med student a total of 50 hours if they have already gone through their basic science years. Additionally, I always thought the exercises in the back of each chapter were too extensive and repetitive. But I also think too much is better than too little. The CD contains a glossary like the back of the book. The glossary is an excellent source that really can be used throughout one's medical training. I think our med school should have a 2 week course teaching this book. It would make life much easier.
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