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Exploring Medical Language

  • 12th Edition
  • April 14, 2025
  • Danielle LaFleur Brooks + 2 more
  • English
Master medical terms on your terms! A combination text/workbook, Exploring Medical Language, 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.

The Language of Medicine

  • 13th Edition
  • November 24, 2023
  • Davi-Ellen Chabner
  • English
Effectively master medical terminology with Davi-Ellen Chabner's The Language of Medicine, 13th Edition. Centering on Chabner’s proven method of learning medical terms by studying them in the context of the human body, this highly praised and bestselling text helps individuals of all educational backgrounds easily understand and remember important medical terminology by incorporating easy-to-follow explanations, relevant examples, and countless reinforcement exercises. This new edition also features additional clinical practice exercises; more medical procedure photos; timely content on immunity and vaccines, infection control, advances in cardiology, cancer research, emerging orthopedic treatments; and more. No matter where your career path takes you, Chabner’s proven method for med term mastery will prepare you for success.

Quick & Easy Medical Terminology

  • 10th Edition
  • August 10, 2023
  • Peggy C. Leonard
  • English
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Dictionaries/Terminology**Learn to read, write, and speak in medical terms in no time! Ideal for one-semester courses and self-study, Quick & Easy Medical Terminology, 10th Edition covers disorders, diagnosis, and treatment with a strong focus on anatomy. This clear, concise text presents small bits of information, followed immediately by a test for comprehension, using a combination of programmed and traditional review questions. This edition includes additional health care reports and review exercises, as well as new and updated terminology, images, and illustrations. With help from resources on the companion Evolve website, Quick & Easy Medical Terminology provides simple tools you need for good communication in the health care environment.

Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards

  • 7th Edition
  • November 16, 2022
  • Danielle LaFleur Brooks + 2 more
  • English
Build 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.

Medical Terminology: A Short Course

  • 9th Edition
  • February 5, 2022
  • Davi-Ellen Chabner
  • English
Build a working medical vocabulary quickly with Chabner’s Medical Terminology: A Short Course, 9th Edition! Omitting time-consuming, nonessential information, this text helps you master the basics of medical vocabulary — including the most frequently encountered suffixes, prefixes, and word roots. A text/workbook format lets you practice and interact with medical terminology on almost every page through exercises, labeling, and pronunciations. Case studies and real-world vignettes demonstrate how medical terms are used in practice. With all this plus medical animations, word games, and flash cards on the Evolve website, you'll be amazed at how easily medical terminology becomes part of your vocabulary.

Building a Medical Vocabulary

  • 11th Edition
  • October 5, 2021
  • Peggy C. Leonard
  • English
Quickly learn essential medical terminology! Both engaging and interactive, Building a Medical Vocabulary, 11th Edition introduces a step-by-step approach to effective communication in the healthcare environment. This text brilliantly intersperses traditional narrative and a variety of learning exercises with a programmed approach that gives you immediate feedback. Ideal for both the classroom setting or for self-study, it provides you with the building blocks to successfully communicate with other members of the healthcare team. Games, exercises, and additional resources on the companion Evolve website help reinforce learning. Spanish translations make this an invaluable resource in today’s multilingual healthcare settings.

Feneis. Nomenclatura anatómica ilustrada

  • 6th Edition
  • February 15, 2021
  • Wolfgang Dauber
  • Spanish
Nueva edición del libro de bolsillo, considerado un verdadero clásico en anatomía. Durante más de 50 años, Feneis (ahora Dauber) se ha consolidado como un estándar de referencia: todos los términos anatómicos (>8.000) se explican mediante textos e ilustraciones (>8.000) de forma breve, concisa y precisa. La obra se basa en la completa y nueva Terminología Anatómica oficial definida por el FIPAT (Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology) e incluye los tres índices (latín, inglés y español). Precisamente la utilización de esta nomenclatura es lo que hace que la obra sea reconocida y validada por toda la comunidad científica internacional, así como que esta obra se haya traducido a 15 idiomas. Se mantiene el diseño a doble página, así como el índice de contenidos. Se han añadido nuevos términos anatómicos pertenecientes al SNC y se han reescrito algunos textos que acompañan a las ilustraciones que podían resultar confusos.

The Language of Medicine

  • 12th Edition
  • March 12, 2020
  • Davi-Ellen Chabner
  • English
Easily and effectively master medical terminology with Davi-Ellen Chabner's The Language of Medicine, 12th Edition! Using Chabner’s proven method of learning medical terms by studying them in the context of the human body, this highly-praised and best-selling text helps individuals of all educational backgrounds easily understand and remember important medical terminology by incorporating easy-to-follow explanations, logical and interesting examples, and countless reinforcement exercises. This new twelfth edition also features additional spotlight boxes on high-interest medical topics; updated medical scenario reports, laboratory tests, and clinical procedures; a new mini dictionary; additional in person stories, ADA-compliant resources, and more. No matter where your career path takes you, Chabner’s proven method for med term mastery will help keep you grounded.