Master the medical terminology you'll need for success with this easy-to-use, objective-based approach! Focused on medical terminology and vocabulary, Exploring Medical Language: A Student-Directed Approach, 8th Edition helps you understand complex medical terms using a proven step-by-step strategy, building each term from its foundation. With a logical, body-systems organization and engaging terminology exercises throughout, it's your key to communicating confidently and effectively with other health care professionals.
Key Features
- Systematic approach to terminology equips you to recognize and define new terms as you encounter them and to build the medical vocabulary you'll need in the health care setting.
- Pronunciation key provides quick access to frequently referenced material.
- Case studies encourage critical thinking and challenge you to apply what you've learned to realistic scenarios.
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine boxes highlight words and phrases associated with this increasingly popular discipline.
- Terminology flash cards (409 cards) included with every book provide valuable review and self-assessment tools you can take anywhere for study on the go.
- Audio CDs, available at an additional charge and packaged either separately or with the book, help you perfect your pronunciation of difficult terms.
- Engaging study tools on a companion Evolve website reinforce your understanding through interactive exercises, the Body Spectrum A&P review program, and a 5,000-term English/Spanish glossary.
- Medical Terminology Online, available at an additional charge, gives you an enhanced learning experience with fully integrated online lessons, animations, slide shows, quizzes, exams, and more.
New to this edition
- Anatomy and physiology "boosters" on the companion Evolve website strengthen your understanding of important A&P concepts.
- Updated terms and abbreviations throughout the text keep you current with the latest advances in technology and changes in the health care industry.
- New illustrations clarify complex physiological processes and familiarize you with equipment you may encounter on the job.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Word Parts and Human Body Structure - Chapter 1 Introduction to Word Parts
- Chapter 2 Body Structure, Color, and Oncology
- Chapter 3 Directional Terms, Planes, Positions, Regions, and Quadrants P
Part 2: Body Systems
- Chapter 4 Integumentary System
- Chapter 5 Respiratory System
- Chapter 6 Urinary System
- Chapter 7 Male Reproductive System
- Chapter 8 Female Reproductive System
- Chapter 9 Obstetrics and Neonatology
- Chapter 10 Cardiovascular, Immune, and Lymphatic Systems and Blood
- Chapter 11 Digestive System
- Chapter 12 Eye
- Chapter 13 Ear
- Chapter 14 Musculoskeletal System
- Chapter 15 Nervous System and Behavioral Health
- Chapter 16 Endocrine System
Appendices (in Book)
- A. Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes Alphabetized According to Word Part
- B. Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes Alphabetized According to Definition
- C. Additional Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes
- D. Abbreviations E. Pharmacology Terms
Appendices (on Evolve)
- F. Health Care Delivery/Managed Care Terms
- G. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies
- H. Behavioral Health Terms
- I. Clinical Research Terms
- J. Nutrition Terms
Illustration Credit
Bibliography
About the Authors
- Myrna LaFleur Brooks, BEd, RN, Founding President of the National Association of Health Unit Clerks/Coordinators, Faculty Emeritus, Maricopa County Community College District, Phoenix, AZ.
- Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MATLA, MEd, Adjunct Faculty, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, VT.
Product Details
- Paperback: 880 pages
- Publisher: Mosby; 8 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323073085
- ISBN-13: 978-0323073080
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 1.4 inches
List Price: $74.95