Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards: Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards - Hardcover

LaFleur Brooks RN BEd, Myrna; LaFleur Brooks MEd MA, Danielle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0323290485 ISBN 13: 9780323290487

Publisher: Mosby, 2016

Synopsis

With brief explanations and a focus on word building skills, Basic Medical Language, 5th Edition provides the foundation you need to confidently communicate with other health care team members. This basic medical vocabulary text explains a carefully selected group of suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms to give you 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 students to define terms or combine word parts to create terms. This text also reinforces learning with all-new case studies, images, and exercises -and carefully crafted Evolve resources.

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About the Authors

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323290485
• ISBN 13: 9780323290487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 432