Table of Contents

Introduction  1
Part I: Living for Linguistics  5


Chapter 1: Scrubbing In to Master Medical Terminology  7


Chapter 2: Medical Terminology: The How and Why  13


Chapter 3: Introducing the Big Three: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes  19


Chapter 4: Acronyms, Eponyms, Homonyms, Multiples, and Plurals — Oh My!  31


Chapter 5: Say What? Pronunciation and Usage  45


Part II: Mapping Words and Bodies  55


Chapter 6: As It Was in the Beginning: Prefixes  57


Chapter 7: So It Shall Be in the End: Suffixes  69


Chapter 8: Hey, I Know You: Word Recognition  75


Chapter 9: Deconstruction Junction: Breaking Down Words 85


Chapter 10: An Org Chart to Live By: Organization of the Body  95


Chapter 11: All Systems Go: When Systems Combine  109


Part III: In Terms of Anatomy  119


Chapter 12: Boning Up on the Skeletal System  121


Chapter 13: Getting Ripped: The Muscular System  139


Chapter 14: Skin Deep: Skin, Glands, Nails, and Hair  153


Chapter 15: It Depends on Your Perception: The Sensory Systems  167


Part IV: Let’s Get Some Physiology Terminology  185


Chapter 16: The Hear  t of the Mat  ter: The Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems  187


Chapter 17: Just Breathe: The Respiratory System  211


Chapter 18: Feeding Time: The Gastrointestinal System  227


Chapter 19: Gatekeepers of Health: The Endocrine System  245


Chapter 20: Calming Down: The Nervous System  261


Part V: Name That Plumbing  275


Chapter 21: When You Gotta Go: The Urinary System  277


Chapter 22: Check the Plumbing: The Male Reproductive System  291


Chapter 23: A Life Force: The Female Reproductive System  305


Part VI: The Part of Tens  325


Chapter 24: Ten Essential Medical Terminology References  327


Chapter 25: Ten or So Useful Mnemonic Devices  331


Chapter 26: Ten Sets of Terminology Tongue-Twisting Diseases 335


Appendix: Prefixes and Suffixes  341


Index  345

About the Author

Beverley Henderson, CMT-R, HRT, has more than 40years experience in medical terminology and transcription.She developed course curricula and helped write and produce aseries of medical terminology teaching videos. Jennifer LeeDorsey has been a writer and editor for 18 years.