cover image - Exploring Medical Language - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 12th Edition
ISBN: 9780443348099
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 04-10-2025
Page Count: 816
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $91.99

Exploring Medical Language - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 12th Edition

by Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA, Dale M. Levinsky, MD and Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Exploring Medical Language - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 12th Edition
ISBN: 9780443348099
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 04-10-2025
Page Count: 816
Imprint: Elsevier
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**2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) McGuffey Longevity Award Winner**

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
  • 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
  • Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA, Coordinator of Teaching and Learning, Allied Health & Science, Faculty, Allied Health and Science, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont, USA, Dale M. Levinsky, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Family, Community, & Preventative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona; Clinical Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA and Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd, Founding President, National Association of Health Unit Coordinators, Faculty Emeritus, Maricopa County Community Colleges, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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