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Building a Medical Vocabulary: with Spanish Translations
The language of medicine may be complex, but learning it doesn't have to be. Using short, easy-to-understand segments followed immediately by programmed exercises, Building a Medical Vocabulary: With Spanish Translations, 9th Edition starts with medical terms that you may already know and builds your knowledge by adding new combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes. An Evolve companion website reinforces your understanding with interactive games, animations, audio pronunciations, and more. Organizing medical terms by body system, this text provides the building blocks for effective communication in the health care environment.
Easy-to-understand, conversational writing style makes reading and absorbing the material enjoyable.
Programmed Learning sections allow you to actively participate in learning and get instant feedback on your progress.
An Evolve companion website reinforces learning with audio pronunciations, interactive games, exercises, animations, flash cards, and more.
Thorough explanation of terms enhances understanding by presenting vocabulary in the context of medical settings.
Moderate level of A&P coverage provides the background that you need to understand body systems in the context of medical terminology.
Health Care Reports and case studies allow you to apply your knowledge to job-like situations.
Spanish translations cover common Spanish terminology that you are likely to encounter in the clinical environment.
Be Careful with These caution boxes highlight important distinctions between terms that are similar in spelling and/or pronunciation.
Comprehensive end-of-chapter reviews allow you to measure your learning against chapter objectives.
The Joint Commission official Do Not Use list of error-prone abbreviations alert you to abbreviations that should not be used in the clinical setting.
Bookmark pronunciation guide makes it easy to find pronunciations and may also be used to cover the answer column while working the programmed learning sections of the text.
Glossary/Index makes it easy to find words and their definitions, and is great for final exam review.
NEW Special Sense Organs chapter is dedicated to coverage of the eye, ear, and other special senses.
NEW! List of key terms with pronunciations in each chapter provides a helpful review that coordinates with audio files on the Evolve companion website.
NEW ICD and CPT information includes ICD and CPT terminology.
Easy-to-understand, conversational writing style makes reading and absorbing the material enjoyable.
Programmed Learning sections allow you to actively participate in learning and get instant feedback on your progress.
An Evolve companion website reinforces learning with audio pronunciations, interactive games, exercises, animations, flash cards, and more.
Thorough explanation of terms enhances understanding by presenting vocabulary in the context of medical settings.
Moderate level of A&P coverage provides the background that you need to understand body systems in the context of medical terminology.
Health Care Reports and case studies allow you to apply your knowledge to job-like situations.
Spanish translations cover common Spanish terminology that you are likely to encounter in the clinical environment.
Be Careful with These caution boxes highlight important distinctions between terms that are similar in spelling and/or pronunciation.
Comprehensive end-of-chapter reviews allow you to measure your learning against chapter objectives.
The Joint Commission official Do Not Use list of error-prone abbreviations alert you to abbreviations that should not be used in the clinical setting.
Bookmark pronunciation guide makes it easy to find pronunciations and may also be used to cover the answer column while working the programmed learning sections of the text.
Glossary/Index makes it easy to find words and their definitions, and is great for final exam review.
NEW Special Sense Organs chapter is dedicated to coverage of the eye, ear, and other special senses.
NEW! List of key terms with pronunciations in each chapter provides a helpful review that coordinates with audio files on the Evolve companion website.
NEW ICD and CPT information includes ICD and CPT terminology.
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688 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1983
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March 4, 2019
I mean, it got the job done. I passed the class. The information was presented in super colorful boxes, which might help others stay interested, but for my dyslexia brain, made the information extremely hard to absorb.
May 12, 2013
Reading this for my Medical Terminalogy class.
May 13, 2015
Very good. I feel like this book is great for getting a quick grasp on medical vocabulary. I found it to be very helpful.
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