The perfect text for a shorter medical terminology course, Basic Medical Language, 6th Edition provides the foundation you need to confidently communicate with other members of your health care team. This basic medical vocabulary text focuses on buil ...view more
The perfect text for a shorter medical terminology course, Basic Medical Language, 6th Edition provides the foundation you need to confidently communicate with other members of your health care team. This basic medical vocabulary text focuses on building word skills by explaining a carefully selected group of suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms to provide the basis for recognizing and defining hundreds of medical terms. Clear, illustrated lessons present terms by body system, introducing word parts and providing review exercises that ask you to define terms or combine word parts to create terms. The new edition of this text also reinforces what you’ve learned with case studies, images, exercises and carefully crafted Evolve resources.
The perfect text for a shorter medical terminology course, Basic Medical Language, 6th Edition provides the foundation you need to confidently communicate with other members of your health care team. This basic medical vocabulary text focuses on building word skills by explaining a carefully selected group of suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms to provide the basis for recognizing and defining hundreds of medical terms. Clear, illustrated lessons present terms by body system, introducing word parts and providing review exercises that ask you to define terms or combine word parts to create terms. The new edition of this text also reinforces what you’ve learned with case studies, images, exercises and carefully crafted Evolve resources.
New to this edition
NEW! An expanded Career Focus feature
highlights professionals whose work focuses on specific body systems.
NEW! Integrated chapter quizzes test your knowledge and provide instant feedback on your progress.
NEW! Updated terminology and illustrations provide students with the latest pathology and procedure information.
NEW! Expanded abbreviation lists provide you with the most important healthcare abbreviations.
Key Features
Over 200 flash cards
packaged free with the text make it easier for you to memorize terms.
Electronic health record mockups provide exposure to the electronic health records that you will encounter in practice.
Systemic presentation of medical terms helps you learn and recognize new words as you encounter them by combining parts.
Case studies serve as review sections and provide additional opportunities for you to apply what you have learned.
Engaging integrated exercises, including matching, building, and reading medical terms in context.
Consistent organization and pacing of lessons ensures steady acquisition of terminology.
Objectives integrated with headings clarify how the content is presented within lessons and show you how objectives relate to content.
Author Information
By Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA, Faculty, Allied Health Science, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont, USA; Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd, Founding President, National Association of Health Unit Coordinators, Faculty Emeritus, Maricopa County Community Colleges, Phoenix, Arizona, USA and Dale M. Levinsky, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
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