Terminology of Health and Medicine, The: A Self-Instructional Program (2e)

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Companion Website - Rice
  http://www.prenhall.com/rice