An Introduction to Medical Terminology for Health Care For Churchill Livingstone: Senior Commissioning Editor: Sarena Wolfaard Project Development Manager: Derek Robertson Project Manager: Andrea Hill Design Direction: Judith Wright An Introduction to Medical Terminology for Health Care A SELF-TEACHING PACKAGE Andrew R. Mutton BSc MSc Lecturer in Life Science Edinburgh's Telford College, Edinburgh, UK THIRD EDITION CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE EDINBURGH LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PHILADELPHIA ST LOUIS SYDNEY TORONTO 2002 CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE An imprint of Elsevier Limited © Elsevier Limited 2002. All rights reserved. The right of Andrew R. Hutton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without either the prior permission of the publishers or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIT 4LP. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier's Health Sciences Rights Department in Philadelphia, USA: phone: (+1) 215 238 7869, fax: (+1) 215 238 2239, e-mail: