Prentice Hall

Allied Health



Terminology of Health and Medicine, The: A Self-Instructional Program, 2/E
Jane Rice, RN, CMA

ISBN-10: 0130423335
ISBN-13: 9780130423337

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 421 pp
Published: 07/25/2002

Suggested retail price: $55.40
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For courses in Medical Terminology.

This easy-to-use text contains a student-friendly presentation of the most commonly used terms, abbreviations, drugs, diseases, and disorders related to health and medicine. Organized into distinct learning frames, it follows a body systems approach arranged by medical/surgical specialty areas, and it is designed in a self-study format for students to learn and practice on their own.

  • NEW - Technology package—Includes interactive CD-ROM and FREE student website, http://www.prenhall.com/rice. CD-ROM contains labeling, audio glossary, spelling bee, flashcards, word-building, and numerous review exercises.
  • NEW - Revised design—Logical, visually rich layout.

    • Allows students to progress through the book easily.

  • NEW - Additional terminology—Especially terms that pertain to psychiatry, obstetrics, and neurology.

    • Familiarizes students with an even wider base of medical terms that helps complete their essential knowledge.

  • NEW - More full-color tables, figures, and illustrations.

    • Assists students in visually understanding the learning concepts being presented.

  • NEW - Added objectives for each unit.

    • Alerts students to key content and helps them organize their learning goals for each unit.

  • Essential terminology—Includes pronunciation key and word elements.

    • Presents students with a systematic learning experience in building a medical vocabulary—and offers immediate feedback for individuals who progress at varying rates.

  • Primary word elements—Begins each chapter.

    • Enables students to build a solid foundation of commonly used word elements that are essential to understanding the terminology of health and medicine.

  • Case studies—Features Present History; Signs and Symptoms; Diagnosis; Treatment; Prevention; and Risk Factor.

    • Gives students a valuable synopsis of selected diseases or disorders.

  • Audiotapes—Two 90-minute tapes contain all answers from the book, pronounced clearly and in a sequence that matches the text exercises.

    • Provides for multidimensional learning, allowing students to listen and practice.

  • Explanation frames—Presents interesting facts about health and medicine throughout the unit.

    • Describes a selected learning concept that relates to the body system being studied, its organs and functions, the terminology associated with the unit, medical/surgical specialty area, diseases and disorders, selected drugs, and abbreviations.

  • More than 600 review exercises.

    • Helps students access their level of understanding of the learning concepts presented in the unit.

  • Selected abbreviations.

    • Familiarizes students with the meanings of abbreviations in current use and directly associated to the subject of the unit.

  • Technology package—Includes interactive CD-ROM and FREE student website, http://www.prenhall.com/rice. CD-ROM contains labeling, audio glossary, spelling bee, flashcards, word-building, and numerous review exercises.
  • Revised design—Logical, visually rich layout.

    • Allows students to progress through the book easily.

  • Additional terminology—Especially terms that pertain to psychiatry, obstetrics, and neurology.

    • Familiarizes students with an even wider base of medical terms that helps complete their essential knowledge.

  • More full-color tables, figures, and illustrations.

    • Assists students in visually understanding the learning concepts being presented.

  • Added objectives for each unit.

    • Alerts students to key content and helps them organize their learning goals for each unit.



 1. Introduction to Medical Terminology.


 2. Organization of the Body.


 3. The Integumentary System: Dermatology.


 4. The Skeletal System: Orthopedics.


 5. The Muscular System: Rheumatology and Orthopedics.


 6. The Nervous System: Neurology and Neurosurgery.


 7. Special Senses: Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology.


 8. The Endocrine System: Endocrinology.


 9. The Cardiovascular System: Cardiology.


10. Blood, Lymph, and the Immune System: Hematology and Immunology.


11. The Digestive System: Gastroenterology.


12. The Respiratory System: Pulmonary Medicine.


13. The Urinary System: Urology.


14. The Female Reproductive System: Gynecology and Obstetrics.


15. The Male Reproductive System: Urology.


Appendix A: Answer Key.


Appendix B: Glossary of Word Elements.


Appendix C: Abbreviations.


Appendix D: List of Tables and Figures Included in the Text Index.

An essential resource for anyone in a medical terminology course or in allied health, nursing, or biology programs, this self-study programmed resource presents the most commonly used terms, abbreviation, drugs, diseases, and disorders related to health and medicine. Arranged by body system' and medical-surgical specialty areas, it provides a basic method for acquiring the essentials needed to build a medical vocabulary with immediate feedback to the reader while allowing for review.

FEATURES:
  • Essential terminology with pronunciation keys and word elements.
  • FREE integrated website—www.prenhall.com/rice—compliments the book with study-guide style quiz questions and immediate tabulation of quiz results.
  • Full-color art and design.
  • More than 600 review exercises, abbreviations, and drugs and disorders.
  • Case studies featuring Present History; Signs and Symptoms; Diagnosis; Treatment; Prevention; and Risk Factors.
  • More tables, figures, and illustrations assist in comprehension.
  • Explanation frames assist in applying facts about health and medicine throughout.
  • Unit openings feature a chapter overview, and learning objectives, and include primary word elements.

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