Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards
- 7th Edition - November 16, 2022
- Authors: Danielle LaFleur Brooks, Myrna LaFleur Brooks, Dale M. Levinsky
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 6 3 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 7 6 4 2 - 1
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Request a sales quoteBuild the foundation you need to confidently communicate with your healthcare team! Basic Medical Language, 7th Edition makes it easy to master the medical terminology needed for success in the health professions. This concise text helps you learn and recognize hundreds of medical terms by introducing the suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms used in building words. Brief, illustrated lessons present terms by body system, and include exercises that ask you to build, define, and read commonly used medical terms. From an expert writing team led by Danielle LaFleur Brooks, this book includes realistic case studies and an Evolve website that simplifies learning with animations, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
- Emphasis on frequently used medical terms includes words and abbreviations used in clinical settings, billing, and coding.
- Systemic presentation of medical terms helps you learn and recognize new words by body system, and are followed by practical application.
- Engaging exercises include matching, building, and reading medical terms in context, helping you learn medical terms built from word parts as well as those NOT built from word parts.
- Case studies allow you to apply medical terms within the context of a patient’s medical condition.
- Word part tables summarize combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes to help you learn medical terms.
- More than 200 flash cards packaged free with the text make it easier to memorize terms and abbreviations.
- Objectives integrated with headings show lesson objectives and correlate to exercises, quizzes, and exams.
- Electronic health record mockups familiarize you with the EHRs you will encounter in practice.
- Learning resources on the Evolve website include games, activities, quizzes, videos, and an audio program ― all tied closely to material in the text.
512,726 medical terminology students in a wide variety of health professional fields. (IPEDS 2017)
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Anatomy of a lesson
- Preface
- Reviewers and advisors
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- 1. Introduction to medical language, body structure, oncology, and laboratory tests
- Objective 1: Identify the origins of medical language, the four word parts, and the combining form.
- Objective 2: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 4: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 5: Identify body structure, oncology, and laboratory terms.
- Objective 6: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and medical records.
- Objective 7: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 2. Directional terms, positions, and imaging
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell directional terms.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms used to describe anatomic planes, abdominopelvic regions, and patient positions.
- Objective 3: Define, pronounce, and spell diagnostic imaging terms.
- Objective 4: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 5: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 6: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 7: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 3. Integumentary system, colors, and plural endings
- Introduction to the integumentary system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Distinguish plural endings from singular endings.
- Objective 5: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 6: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 7: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 4. Respiratory system
- Introduction to the respiratory system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 5. Urinary system
- Introduction to the urinary system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 6. Reproductive systems
- Introduction to the reproductive systems
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms NOT built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 7. Cardiovascular and lymphatic systems
- Introduction to the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 8. Digestive system
- Introduction to the digestive system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 9. Eye and ear
- Introduction to the eye and the ear
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 10. Musculoskeletal system
- Introduction to the musculoskeletal system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 11. Nervous system and behavioral health
- Introduction to the nervous system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- 12. Endocrine system
- Introduction to the endocrine system
- Objective 1: Build, translate, pronounce, and spell medical terms built from word parts.
- Objective 2: Define, pronounce, and spell medical terms not built from word parts.
- Objective 3: Write abbreviations.
- Objective 4: Identify medical terms by clinical category.
- Objective 5: Use medical language in clinical statements, the case study, and a medical record.
- Objective 6: Recall and assess knowledge of word parts, medical terms, and abbreviations.
- Appendix A: Word parts used in Basic Medical Language
- Appendix B: Abbreviations & Error Prone List
- Appendix C: Answer key
- Appendix D: Pharmacology terms
- Appendix E: Health information technology (HIT) terms
- Appendix F: Integrative medicine terms
- Illustration credits
- Index
- Common terminology
- Flash cards
- No. of pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: 7
- Published: November 16, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323876384
- eBook ISBN: 9780323876421
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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
Faculty, Allied Health Science, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont, USAML
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, USADL
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, Department Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA