实用医学英语.doc

CHENGDU MEDICAL COLLEGE PRACTICAL MEDICAL ENGLISH 任梦梅 王凤鸣 王学成 人文外语教研室Unit 1 Human Body 3 Section A Formation of Medical Terminology 3 Section B Human Body 4 Section C Anatomical Terminology 8 Section D Parts of Human Body and English Idioms 11 Unit 2 Skeletal System 16 Section A Formation of Medical terminology 16 Section B Listening : A Bone Will Never Say 17 Section C Terminology 18 Section D Reading Passages 19 Unit 3 Brain and Nervous System 25 Section A Terminology 25 Section B Reading passages 26 Section C Expressions of Medical Conditions 33 Unit 4 Endocrine System 36 Section A Terminology 36 Section B Reading Passages 37 Unit 5 Heart and Circulatory System 44 Section A Terminology 44 Section B Listening 45 Section C Reading Passages 47 Unit 6 Lungs and Respiratory System 51 Section A Terminology 51 Section B Dialogue 51 Section C Reading Passages 52 Unit 7 Digestive System 57 Section A Terminology 57 Section B Dialogue 58 Section C Reading Passages 60 Unit 8 Miscellanies 67 Section A Reading Passages 67 Section B Prescription Abbreviations 70 Section C Various hospitals , Hospital departments 70 Unit 1 Human Body Section A Formation of Medical Terminology How many medical words are there in a medium-sized medical dictionary? The answer is around 100,000, which is a conservative estimate. Moreover, like the jargon in all forward-moving fields, the number is expanding so constantly and quickly that it defies any memorization! There are tools, however, that can aid in learning and remembering medical terms and even help in making informed guesses as to the meaning of unfamiliar words. Furthermore, their numbers are limited, about 400 to 500 or so the most active ones , but the combinations derived from are enormous. So to learn how to use these tools is much more efficient and meaningful than to try to memorize every medical term. The tools you are going to learn to use are these Greek and Latin parts of words, which are called the root, p