Full Description
Master medical terms on your terms! A combination text/workbook, Exploring Medical Language: A Student-Directed Approach, 12th Edition, provides exercises that make it easy to build an understanding of medical terminology. Organized by body system, medical terms are divided into two categories: 1) Words built from word parts, and 2) Words NOT built from word parts. Fun and engaging exercises help you first learn word parts and then learn how to combine the parts into full medical terms that make sense. The text also comes packaged with paper flashcards. For more practice, you can visit an Evolve companion website with games, activities, flashcards, and practice exams. From well-known educators Danielle LaFleur Brooks, Dale Levinsky, and Myrna LaFleur Brooks, this learning package helps you gain fluency in medical language and communicate clearly in the health care setting.
NEW! Capstone exercise, Scribe It, helps you draw on what you've learned from Exploring Medical Language to transcribe information from a patient encounter
EXPANDED! Practical Application sections at end of chapters 2-16, called Use Medical Terms in Clinical Statements, enhance review and retention of chapter content
EXPANDED! Focus on lab findings includes a narrative explanation and identification of terms indicating lab findings
NEW! Added phonetic spelling for abbreviations spoken as whole words
NEW! Introduction of the SOAP Note format and associated abbreviations
ENHANCED! Behavioral health coverage includes narrative introduction
Systematic presentation of medical terminology provides a foundation of word parts, then builds words by combining the parts
Extensive review of word parts and terms offers the practice needed to learn medical terminology
Accessible, interactive exercises and games on the accompanying Evolve website provide extensive opportunities to practice building, hearing, and spelling terms
Medical Terminology Online (MTO) companion course offers additional practice and interactivity to support comprehension. Sold separately
Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO WORD PARTS AND HUMAN BODY STRUCTURE
1. Introduction to Medical Language
2. Body Structure, Oncology, and Laboratory Tests
3. Directional Terms, Positions, and Imaging
PART 2 BODY SYSTEMS
4. Integumentary System
5. Respiratory System
6. Urinary System
7. Male Reproductive System
8. Female Reproductive System
9. Obstetrics and Neonatology
10. Cardiovascular, Lymphatic, Immune Systems and Blood
11. Digestive System
12. Eye
13. Ear
14. Musculoskeletal System
15. Nervous System and Behavioral Health
16. Endocrine System
