Previous edition: St. Louis: Elsevier, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic word structure -- Terms pertaining to the body as a whole -- Suffixes -- Prefixes -- Digestive system -- Additional suffixes and digestive system terminology -- Urinary system -- Female reproductive system -- Male reproductive system -- Nervous system -- Cardiovascular system -- Respiratory system -- Blood system -- Lymphatic and immune system -- Musculoskeletal system -- Skin -- Sense organs: the eye and the ear -- Endocrine system -- Cancer medicine (oncology) -- Radiology and nuclear medicine -- Pharmacology -- Psychiatry -- Mini-dictionary.

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