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Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards

  • 6th Edition - September 6, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Danielle LaFleur Brooks, Myrna LaFleur Brooks, Dale M. Levinsky
  • Language: English

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 o… Read more

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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.

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.

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 3, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Danielle LaFleur Brooks

Danielle has taught medical terminology and medical assisting courses in face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats since 2008. She has led the writing of Basic Medical Language since 1996, utilizing her knowledge of how students learn based on her previous career as a high school English Teacher. She is the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.
Affiliations and expertise
Coordinator of Teaching and Learning, Allied Health & Science, Faculty, Allied Health and Science, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont, USA

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Myrna LaFleur Brooks

Myrna was a health science faculty member and division chair with the Maricopa County Community College for 27 years. During that time she taught medical terminology and developed the curriculum for seven other health occupation education programs. She is also the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.
Affiliations and expertise
Founding President, National Association of Health Unit Coordinators, Faculty Emeritus, Maricopa County Community Colleges, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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Dale M. Levinsky

Dr. Levinsky is a board-certified family medicine physician. She currently teaches case-based instruction at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, where she is a Clinical Associate Professor in the department Family and Community Medicine. She also supervises medical students in three clinics dedicated to the care of underserved patients. She is the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.
Affiliations and expertise
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