Build the foundation you need to confidently communicate with your healthcare team! Basic Medical Language, 7th Edition makes it easy to master the medical terminology needed for success in the health professions. This concise text helps you learn an ...view more
Build the foundation you need to confidently communicate with your healthcare team! Basic Medical Language, 7th Edition makes it easy to master the medical terminology needed for success in the health professions. This concise text helps you learn and recognize hundreds of medical terms by introducing the suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms used in building words. Brief, illustrated lessons present terms by body system, and include exercises that ask you to build, define, and read commonly used medical terms. From an expert writing team led by Danielle LaFleur Brooks, this book includes realistic case studies and an Evolve website that simplifies learning with animations, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
Build the foundation you need to confidently communicate with your healthcare team! Basic Medical Language, 7th Edition makes it easy to master the medical terminology needed for success in the health professions. This concise text helps you learn and recognize hundreds of medical terms by introducing the suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms used in building words. Brief, illustrated lessons present terms by body system, and include exercises that ask you to build, define, and read commonly used medical terms. From an expert writing team led by Danielle LaFleur Brooks, this book includes realistic case studies and an Evolve website that simplifies learning with animations, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
New to this edition
NEW! Introduction to Diagnostic Imaging discusses radiology and features medical terms used in clinical practice.
NEW! Laboratory Medical Terms provide insight into laboratory tests, collection techniques, and sections of clinical laboratories.
NEW! Expanded quizzes with additional practical application questions conclude each lesson.
Key Features
Emphasis on frequently used medical terms includes words and abbreviations used in clinical settings, billing, and coding
Systemic presentation of medical terms helps you learn and recognize new words by body system, and are followed by practical application
Engaging exercises include matching, building, and reading medical terms in context, helping you learn medical terms built from word parts as well as those NOT built from word parts
Case studies allow you to apply medical terms within the context of a patient’s medical condition
Word part tables summarize combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes to help you learn medical terms
More than 200 flash cards packaged free with the text make it easier to memorize terms and abbreviations
Objectives integrated with headings show lesson objectives and correlate to exercises, quizzes, and exams
Electronic health record mockups familiarize you with the EHRs you will encounter in practice
Learning resources on the Evolve website include games, activities, quizzes, videos, and an audio program ― all tied closely to material in the text
Author Information
By Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA, Coordinator of Teaching & Learning, Allied Health & Science, Faculty, Allied Health & Science, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont; Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd, Founding President, National Association of Health Unit Coordinators, Faculty Emeritus, Maricopa County Community Colleges, Phoenix, Arizona; Dale M. Levinsky, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Family, Community, & Preventative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona and Clinical Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
1. Introduction to Medical Language, Body Structure, Oncology, and Laboratory Tests 2. Directional Terms, Positions, and Imaging 3. Integumentary System, Colors, and Plural Endings 4. Respiratory System 5. Urinary System 6. Reproductive Systems 7. Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems 8. Digestive System 9. Eye and Ear 10. Musculoskeletal System 11. Nervous System and Behavioral Health 12. Endocrine System
APPENDIX A. Word Parts Used in Basic Medical Language B. Abbreviations & Error-Prone List C. Answer Key Illustration Credits Index Evolve Appendices, Evolve Resources at evolve.elsevier.com D. Pharmacology Terms E. Health Information Technology Terms F. Integrative Medicine Terms
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