Can anyone Suggest a good Medical Terminology Book?

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I am starting my RN program in the fall and I am trying to "brush up" on my medical terminology before the semester begins. Can anyone suggest a good, to the point, medical terminology reference?

Thanks!!

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

kiddo, i taught medical terminology. forget getting a textbook. get a good medical dictionary and keep it with you. look up medical terms as you encounter them. taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary is excellent and geared to nurses with a lot of useful goodies in the appendix. it also has a nursing assessment form in the center of it. you can look up the definitions of most word roots, suffixes and prefixes in taber's either in the general listings or in a medical terminology section in its appendix. another physically larger dictionary is mosby's medical, nursing, & allied health dictionary, but it does not have all the nursing extras that taber's has.

to brush up on medical terminology there are free online resources you can utilize. i listed them on post #20 of this sticky thread on this forum:

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Thank you so much!!! I will definitely take your advice!

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PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF ICD-10 CODING

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PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF ICD-10 CODING

Author: Dr. Dhirendra Verma & Ali Mohamed El-Sayed Binding: Hardback (pp: 243) ISBN: 978-81-903812-2-2 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Rochak Publishing Pub. Date: 2008 Condition: New Description:

The traditional emphasis in medical records management around the world has been on what data to get, and not on how to get it. The more efficient health information systems of today, however, are interested in what data to get, how to get it, and how to synthesize these data into an understanding of the patient's total situation. Disease classification and coding is the principal tool used by medical records personnel to accomplish this, and is, therefore a skill, which the effective healthcare managers, medical records administrators, clinical statisticians, statistical technicians, and medical transcriptionists also must master. This book is designed to present the principles that will help the learner to acquire or improve that skill.

http://cyberwit.net/dhirendra.htm

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