The student workbook now features expanded activities for every chapter, and Review Checkpoints follow major chapter sections to direct students to complete relevant workbook exercises to assess mastery of word building; anatomy and physiology; medical vocabulary; pathological conditions; diagnostic techniques, treatments, and procedures; and common abbreviations.

This workbook is designed as a tool to help you learn. It is intended to accompany Comprehensive Medical Terminology, Fourth Edition by Betty Davis Jones. A variety of exercises are included to help you master key concepts in each chapter of the text. The labeling exercises and several other exercises involve written answers. Writing out the answers helps you absorb more information and boosts your learning. Review Checkpoint feature in the text correlates to exercises in the workbook for reviewing and learning manageable sections of material. Extensive exercises for each chapter include labeling, build-a-word, find the term, completion, word elements and common abbreviation matching, spelling, What is This? scenarios, and Putting It All Together. Build-a-Word and Word Elements exercises reinforce medical terms and their word parts. Labeling Exercises help you learn the major structures in each body system.

"Comprehensive Medical Terminology, Fourth Edition is an easy-to-use introduction to medical vocabulary. Organized by body system and specialty areas of practice, this book emphasizes anatomy and physiology, pathological conditions and diagnostic techniques and procedures. The foundational study of word parts is integrated into and reinforced in each chapter to promote comprehension, and simple-to-complex definitions encourage clear interpretation of medical terms in reports and charts. The interactive StudyWARE(TM) CD-ROM engages learners with quizzes, 3-D animations, video clips, and a variety of games to build knowledge."--P. 4 de la couv.

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Comprehensive Medical Terminology, 4E is an easy-to-use introduction to medical terminology that will unlock a world of knowledge for your students. Organized by body system and specialty areas of practice, this book emphasizes anatomy and physiology, pathological conditions and diagnostic techniques and procedures. The study of word parts is integrated into and reinforced in every chapter to enhance student comprehension. Comprehensive Medical Terminology, 4E contains simple-to-complex definitions that will strengthen your students’ ability to read and interpret medical terms in reports and charts. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

This workbook has been developed for all individuals with little to no background in the health care field. It is a basic introduction to medical terminology. It provides the student with an opportunity to develop good word-building skills so that the student can identify medical terms by their corresponding word components. This workbook is unique in that it has been designed for use with any medical terminology textbook or instructor lectures. It is filled with exercises, crossword puzzles, case studies, and a bonus section with flash cards to assist the student in broadening their knowledge base. There are special topics such as medical financial terms, which will help familiarize one with the special communication style used by hospitals, medical offices, and insurance companies in medical billing. The student need not be limited to one pursuing a strictly medical career. The student of medical terminology may be an accountant, an attorney, a journalist, or an individual from any of the vast array of fields that directly or not deal with the medical profession. The entry-level health care provider to facilitate in the on-going review of medical terminology can also utilize this book. In 2012, this workbook became available in e-book format! Dr. Mundorff is available for personalized online tutoring; contact her at [email protected].