Beschreibung

This book is designed to help those who want to read medical journals and textbooks more fluently. The level of the book is intermediate to upper-intermediate. The model used is British English.

This book assumes you know basic medical terms derived from Greek and Latin. The focus is on the ordinary English equivalents of those terms and on English words which are given a special meaning in medicine.

The book has 60 two-page units. The first 46 are thematic, covering medical topics from Health and illness to Research studies. The remaining 14 units cover communication skills such as taking a history and Conference Presentations. The left-hand page of each unit explains new words and expressions in contexts which make their meaning clear, and the right-hand page allows you to check and develop your understaning of the new language and how it is used, through a series of exercises.

There are six appendices, providing illustrations of parts of the body and types of medication, a useful list of medical abbreviations, and examples of verbs for instructions, lay terms and definitions that can be used when speaking to patients.

There is an answer key at the back of the book.

Standort

SLZ EnU 17