Barbara Janson Cohen, MSEd, Shirley A. Jones, MSEd, MHA, MSN, EMT-P, RN
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Ninth edition
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Burlington, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2021
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 670 pages
Other Physical Details
color illustrations ;
Dimensions
28 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Revised edition of: Medical terminology / Barbara Janson Cohen, Ann DePetris. 8th edition. Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2017].
Text of Note
Includes index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Knowledge of medical terminology is fundamental to a wide variety of healthcare fields. This book is designed to satisfy the basic learning requirements needed to practice in any health career setting. In the course of your training and future careers, you will need to learn thousands of new terms. The job might be overwhelming if not for learning the skills of dividing the words into their component parts. These roots, suffixes, and prefixes appear over and over in different terms but retain the same meanings. Knowing these meanings will help you define and remember a host of words. This process is like using a set of building blocks to assemble different structures. Using a more scientific example, it is like using the four bases in DNA to code for all the amino acids needed to make proteins"--