Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
The perfect text for a shorter medical terminology course, Basic Medical Language, 6th Edition provides the foundation your students need to confidently communicate with other members of the health care team. This basic medical vocabulary text focuses on building students’ 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 students to define terms or combine word parts to create terms. The new edition of this text also reinforces student learning with case studies, images, exercises and carefully crafted, fully accessible Evolve resources.
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Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards, Elsevier EBook on VitalSource
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- Systemic presentation of medical terms helps students learn and recognize new words as they encounter them by combining parts.
- Objectives integrated with headings clarify how the content is presented within lessons and show students how objectives relate to content.
- NEW! An expanded Career Focus feature highlights professionals whose work focuses on specific body systems.
- Engaging integrated exercises, including matching, building, and reading medical terms in context, foster an active learning approach.
- Consistent organization and pacing of lessons ensures steady acquisition of terminology.
- NEW! Integrated chapter quizzes test student knowledge and provide instant feedback on their progress.
- NEW! Updated terminology and illustrations provide students with the latest pathology and procedure information.
- NEW! Expanded abbreviation lists provide students the most important healthcare abbreviations.
- Over 200 flash cards packaged free with the text make it easier for students to memorize terms.
- Electronic health record mockups provide exposure to the electronic health records that students will encounter in practice.
- Case studies serve as review sections and provide additional opportunities for students to apply what they have learned.
- Elsevier’s Adaptive Learning program customized for Basic Medical Language, 6th Edition helps students learn and retain medical terminology in an adaptive and personalized environment.
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- 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.
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1. Introduction to Medical Language, Body Structure, and Oncology
2. Directional Terms, Planes, Regions, Positions, and Quadrants
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
12. Endocrine System
Appendices
A: Word Parts Used in Basic Medical Language
B: Abbreviations, Including Error-prone Abbreviation List
C: Answers to Exercises
