Comprehensive Medical Terminology for Health Professions, 1st Edition

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 dedicated to key specialty areas, including mental health, infant and child health, gerontology, oncology and pharmacology.With a time-tested chapter and learning exercise structure that has made the series a leader for over 30 years, this reader-friendly new resource features streamlined content, contemporary illustrations and real-world examples to help make even complex material accessible to students with varied learning styles, as well as ESL learners. Each chapter begins with a vocabulary list of 60 key terms and 15 essential word parts. Comprehensive Medical Terminology for Health Professions 1st Edition is written by Carol Schroeder and published by Cengage Learning. ISBNs for Comprehensive Medical Terminology for Health Professions are 9798214340203, and the print ISBNs are 9780357512630, 0357512634. Additional ISBNs include 9780357709566, 9780357512746, 9780357512739.