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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0874840538
  • ISBN-13:
    9780874840537
  • PUB. DATE:
    June 1960
  • PUBLISHER:
    McGraw-Hill Companies, The

Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms / Edition 1 by Donald Borror

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I share this book with my students in high school science class and will promote it every chance I get. It is the most valuable book I have ever used. When I was going to school, it was the secret to saving many hours of studying. It is pretty easy to point out the erythrocyte if you know it means 'red cell' and leukocyte if you know leuko means 'white.' It helps struggling readers to overcome...

This is a worthwhile book.by Anonymous

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'This book is worthwhile,however, if you wish to understand it totally, you need to buy the book bioscientific terminology by Donald.A.Ayers-if you wish to understand the grammar behind the roots,prefixes, and suffixes that are used to construct the words. This book is a worthwhile little dictionary,that provides the user with the common roots from greek and latin,and there is a useful index of the...

anatomy and physiology nomenclature solvedby Anonymous

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An absolute must for medical/nursing and allied discipline students. No need for medical terminology after studying with this little jewel.


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Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms

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  • Pub. Date: June 1960
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Sales Rank: 37,603

Synopsis

One of the outstanding problems of the biologist, whether he be beginning student or specialists, is that of understanding technical terms. The best way to understand and remember technical terms is to understand first their component parts, or roots. This dictionary has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the beginning student, the medical student, and the taxonomist, but it should be of value to all biologists.