Comprehensive Medical Terminology

COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY, Fifth Edition, offers an engaging, effective introduction to medical terminology to prepare you for career success in nursing, medical assisting, and other allied health professions. Organized by body system and specialty areas of practice, this comprehensive, highly practical text emphasizes anatomy and physiology, pathological conditions, diagnostic techniques,

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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. Question types include chapter

COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY, Fifth Edition, offers an engaging, effective introduction to medical terminology to prepare you for career success in nursing, medical assisting, and other allied health professions. Organized by body system and specialty areas of practice, this comprehensive, highly practical text emphasizes anatomy and physiology, pathological conditions, diagnostic techniques,

Building on the best-selling MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS series, this comprehensive text is designed to help students with no healthcare background achieve deep competence in medical terminology. In addition to 14 in-depth chapters on body systems and a unit on diagnostic procedures and nuclear medicine, the text includes chapters