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Build the medical vocabulary skills you need for success in health care with this engaging resource. With an active learning approach ideal for use in the classroom or for self-study, this comprehensive, yet approachable, text establishes basic terms and progressively introduces new root words, prefixes, and suffixes with a unique building-block format that encourages you to learn as you write and speak new terms. Concepts are presented in small, manageable segments accompanied by chapter exercises and review questions that help you understand medical terms and ensure effective communication in the health care field.

Índice: Introductory Chapters: Foundations of Medical Terminology1. Tools for Building Medical TermsWord Building, Word Parts, Forming Plurals, and Pronunciation2. Medicine and its SpecialtiesUsing Combining Forms to Build Terms about Medical Specialties3. Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Surgical Terms Using Suffixes to Build Medical Terms4. Diseases and DisordersUsing Suffixes to Build Terms about Diseases and Disorders5. Prefixes Using Prefixes, Suffixes and Combining Forms to Build Medical Terms 6. Organization of the BodyThe Body's Organizational Scheme, Anatomic and Directional Terms, Body Regions and Cavities7.... Etc.