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ISBN 978-0-582-45147-6

First published 2002

Sixth impression 2007

Text copyright © Alison Pohl 2002

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Acknowledgements

I am truły grateful to Roland Koerner, MD, MRCPath for many things in life, but as far as this book is concemed I would like to express my grateful thanks for his valuable time and expertise without which this book would not have been possible. I would also like to express my grateful thanks to my old friend Jane Patterson, RN, RM for invaluable assistance and guidance with some of the materiał. To Nick Brieger, our faithful series editor, and Helen Parker and the team at Penguin Longman I would also like to say a heartfelt thank you.

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Contents

l<> IIig student		V	23	Polite requests	29
Soction 1: Basic medicine			24	Giving instructions	30
1	Parts of the body	1	25	Articles of clothing	32
2	Body systems	2	26	Abbreviations	33
3	Basic terms	3	27	Common complaints	34
4	Word roots	4	28	Understanding the patient	36
5	Basic hospital vocabulary	5	Section 5: Hospital environment
6	Basic pathology	6	29	Places in the hospital	37
7	Describing symptoms	7	30	People in the hospital	38
8	Shape	8	31	Letter of referral	40
Section 2: Body systems 1			32	Confusing words	42
9	Bones and joints 1	10	33	Procedures	43
10	Bones and joints 2:		34	Communication skills	44
	word building 1	12	35	Things on the ward	46
11	The heart	13	36	Eguipment	48
12	The digestive system	14	Section 6: lllness and disease
13	The respiratory system	15	37	Types of illness	50
14	The nervous system	16	38	Diseases	52
Section 3: Body systems 2			39	Infectious diseases:
15	Embryo to birth	17		word building 2	53
16	The urinary system	18	40	Prepositions	54
17	The reproductive system	20	41	Genetics	56
18	The skin	22	42	Food	58
19	Hormones	24	43	Prefixes and suffixes	60
20	The eye and the ear	25	44	Flow’s the patient:
				phrasal verbs	61
Section 4: Dealing with			45	The patienfs condition	63
the patient
21	Taking a history	26	Section 7: Medical conditions
22	Family and social history	28	46	Seen on the skin	64