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Exploring Medical Language, 12th Edition

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By Danielle LaFleur Brooks, MEd, MA, Dale M. Levinsky, MD and Myrna LaFleur Brooks, RN, BEd
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, m ...view more
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.
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9780443264559
Publication Date :
02-04-2025
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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.

Key Features
  • 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

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By 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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ISBN Number 9780443264559
Description Author List By 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
Copyright Year 2026
Edition Number 12
Format Book
Trim 216w x 276h (8.50" x 10.875")
Imprint Elsevier
Page Count 796
Publication Date 2 Apr 2025
Stock Status IN STOCK

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PREFACE Features
Organization of the Textbook
Anatomy of a Chapter
Online Student Resources
Online Instructor Resources

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

APPENDICES
A. Answer Key
B. Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes Alphabetized by Word Part
C. Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes Alphabetized by Definition
D. Abbreviations
E. Pharmacology Terms

ONLINE APPENDICES
F. Additional Combining Forms, Prefixes, and Suffixes, Evolve Resources
G. Health Care Delivery Terms, Evolve Resources
H. Integrative Medicine Terms, Evolve Resources
I. Behavioral Health Terms, Evolve Resources
J. Clinical Research Terms, Evolve Resources
K. Nutrition Terms, Evolve Resources
L. Dental Terms, Evolve Resources
M. Health Information Technology (HIT) Terms, Evolve Resource
"...a textbook and workbook for medical terminology classes,... mostly composed of word lists and exercises to help students memorize or interpret them. It also comes with a code for a set of complementary online exercises.... The purpose of this book is to help students learn and use medical terminology.... The book supports students by providing a diverse array of exercises to help them memorize and use medical terms.... primary audience is students in medical terminology courses, and it is well designed to meet their needs.... This is a well-formatted textbook for medical terminology students. It covers substantially the same material as other medical terminology textbooks but with more exercises and types of exercises and less text than most.... I recommend this book to instructors who want to assign something more like a workbook than a textbook and to academic and health sciences librarians whose faculty use it." Review by Chana Kraus-Friedberg, AHIP, MSLS, PhD (Michigan State University Libraries), ©Doody's Review Service, 2025.
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