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Medical Terminology: A Short Course, 8e

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Learn the basics of medical terminology with Medical A Short Course, 8 th Edition ! Based on Davi-Ellen Chabner's proven learning method, this streamlined text omits time-consuming, nonessential information and helps you quickly build a working medical vocabulary of the most frequently encountered prefixes, suffixes, and word roots. Medical terms are introduced in the context of human anatomy and physiology so you understand exact meaning, and case studies, vignettes, and activities demonstrate how they're used in practice. With writing and interacting with medical terminology on almost every page, you’ll learn the content by doing the work. In addition, an Evolve companion website reinforces understanding with medical animations, word games, and flash cards.

448 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1990

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Davi-Ellen Chabner BA MAT

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September 23, 2014
This is an awesome book for medical students.
It's easy, clear, colorful and contain great images!
It's also not very deep or even very hard to understand and approximately the last 100 page are dictionary :)

The reason why I finished it early it's because I'm a radiology student 3rd year so, I'm really familiar with the anatomy for sure & I learned some terminology through my studying but, I was looking for a terminology book to widen my gaze and because I want to learn more so, yeah! I haven't read every word in here because some of them was known to me other were not-commonly used in my field. But, overall it's amazing!

I enjoyed reading it & I recommend it to new medical students what ever your majors were :)
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February 6, 2011
Loving it! finished! (Started in early December, finished in January 2011. Aced the class!)
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September 3, 2012
This book was so helpful while getting my CNA and now that I am reading and working through it again it is even more helpful then before. It helps you learn (or review) terminology but also gives some basic review of anatomy and physiology within the terminology so that you know what it refers to. As I said it works great for review the second time you use it. I am just starting to use the CDs now and I know that they will be very helpful.
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February 1, 2008
I'm teaching Med Term at the community college. So most of my reading this past week (and for the next four) focuses around that.
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December 15, 2012
Every exercise are repeated so much, that i get frustrated sometimes writing the same every time.
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October 22, 2013
as i'm not related to the medical field, but working in a medical institute.. i guess this book is simple enough :)
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