English in medicine. A Text Book for Doctors, Students in Medicine and Nurses

Manualul constituie o metoda rapida si facila de insusire a vocabularului specific medical din limba engleza, atit pentru studenti si medici, cit si pentru cadrele medicale medii. Cuprins: The Hippocratic Oath • The Hippocratic Oath (a second variant accessible on Internet) • Anatomy • The Cell • The Skeleton • The Muscular System • The Nervous System • The Blood Vascular System • The Respiratory System • The Digestive System • Physiology • Smooth Muscle • Cerebral Circulation • Movements of the Heart • Movements of Respiration • Gastric Movements • Renal Function in the New-Born • Functions of the Iris • Sense of Taste (Gustation) • Inorganic Chemistry • Acids, Bases and Salts • Oxidation and Reduction • Catalysis • Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry • Alcohols • Carboxylic Acids • Salts of Carboxylic Acids • Fats (Lipids) • Carbohydrates • Amino Acids and Proteins • Steroids • Medical Skills • The Medical Interview • Oral Diagnosis • Home Care of the Sick • Physicians and Surgeons and Their Diagnostic Procedures • Semiology and Clinics • Rheumatic Fever • Heart Diseases in Infancy and Childhood • The Infantile Eczema • Rickets • Measles • Bronchitis • Asthma • Diabetes Mellitus • Myocardial Infarction • Tubulo-Interstitial Nephritis • Arthritis • Ectopic Pregnancy • Jaundice in Pregnancy • Brenner Tumors of Ovary • Syndromes Involving Facial Pain • Pharmacology and Therapeutics • The Vitamins • Tobacco and Its Alkaloids • Penicillin • Drug Tolerance • Epinephrine • Drugs of the Carbohydrate Group • Drugs of the Fatty Acid Group • Drugs of the Alkaloid Group • Drugs of the Protein Group • Drugs of the Isoprenoid Group • Supplementary Readings • Disease – An Undefined Word • Short Account of Chinese Medicine • Exploring the Borderlands of the Mind • A „Complete” Physician • Autopsy: A Tool for Diagnosis and for Education • Patients’ Rights • Telemedicine • Health Care and the Next Generation Internet • Famous Physicians • Hippocrates • Avicenna • William Harvey • Louis Pasteur • Joseph Lister • Bibliography • General Acronyms and Abbreviations in Medicine