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Understanding Medical Terms: A Guide for Pharmacy Practice
Understanding Medical Terms A Guide for Pharmacy Practice Author:Robert J. Holt, Mary J. Stanaszek, Walter F. Stanaszek The role of this text is to provide the practicing pharmacist (or pharmacy student, with a little guidance) a sufficient basis in medical terminology so that he or she is able to understand most of the medical terms encountered in practice. To do that, the book approaches terminology through a study of the parts of words_the prefixes, roots, and... more » suffixes which create the meanings attributed to the total term. Pharmacists and pharmacy students should approach this book as a study tool. It is organized in a learning sequence and can be read from beginning to end by those wanting a full understanding of the terminology involved. Or the individual therapeutic chapters can be studied separately for those wishing to refine their knowledge in a specific area.« less