Veterinary Medical Terminology

Here's a text that provides readers with a solid foundation in veterinary medical terminology. A strong emphasis on clinical application makes the vocabulary easy to learn and remember, and familiarizes readers with basic concepts in anatomy, physiology, and disease. Features chapter goals and objectives, self-tests with answers, numerous illustrations, and much more!
Focuses the reader's attention on essential information with chapter goals and objectives.
Encourages effective learning with related-terms sections that include word-division exercises, phonetic spellings, brief definitions, and etymologies.
Offers readers immediate feedback on comprehension through numerous self-tests with answers.
Clarifies important anatomic features with more than 150 exquisitely rendered, original medical illustrations.
Makes unfamiliar terms easier to understand with coverage of word structure that discusses root words, prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and compound words.
Includes a chapter on pharmacology reviewing metric, apothecary, and household measurement conversions, prescriptions, abbreviations, examples of prescriptions and prescription labels, and more.
Adheres to the standardized nomenclature for directional terminology accepted by most veterinary anatomists and the American College of Veterinary Radiologists (ACVR).

Autor: Christenson