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• Systematic approach to terminology prepares you to recognize and define new words as you encounter them and build the medical vocabulary you'll need in the health care setting.
• Pronunciation key provides quick access to frequently referenced material.
• Complimentary and Alternative Medicine terms boxes highlight words and phrases associated with this increasingly popular discipline.
• Case studies encourage critical thinking and demonstrate how to apply the information you've learned.
• Terminology flash cards, included with every book, give you valuable review and self-assessment tools you can take anywhere for study on the go.
• Evolve resources enhance your learning and reinforcement opportunities with additional exercises, a Spanish/English glossary, and the Body Spectrum Electronic Anatomy Coloring Book.
• Medical Terminology Online, available at an additional charge, gives you access to a complete online course for the most advanced learning and understanding.

• New terms and abbreviations familiarize you with the latest terminology in use in health care.
• New images and illustrations visually acquaint you with pathologic information and procedures you'll encounter in the clinical setting.
• Enhanced chapter features highlight important concepts and provide guidance for more effective learning and study.
• CD references within the text direct you to expanded learning opportunities on the companion CD.
• More than 20 new medical records let you practice medical terminology using the forms you'll encounter in the clinical setting.
• New icons make it easy to distinguish a variety of helpful boxes and reference the material you need quickly.
• Answers to review exercises help you gauge your strengths and weaknesses and configure the most effective study plan for you.
• Website boxes refer you to valuable content you can access online for further learning.
• Revised pharmacy appendix helps you easily reference key pharmaceutical terms.
• The vastly updated companion CD provides fun alternatives for reinforcing what you've learned with new learning games, including Medical Millionaire and Termbusters.
• Enhanced audio companion, available on CD or as iTerms downloads for portable media players, helps you perfect your pronunciation skills and confidently use the terms you've learned in practice.

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Great Med Term book	Customer Rating:
this book realy help me with medical terminology i recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn med term, its easy and a fast way to learn especially because it comes with a CD that helps a lot

Textbook with no access code to website	Customer Rating:
This book was the official textbook for the course I am taking but it does not come with the access code needed to get to the website. The access code is sold separately for $40.

A bit too simplistic

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I took a course in medical terminology as part of an online degree program, and the course utilized this textbook which, after a chapter or two, bored me to tears. The information is good if medical terminology is something you're unfamiliar with. However, I work as a medical transcriptionist and am quite familiar with many medical terms. I've also taken both high school and university-level classes in anatomy and physiology, so much of the information here simply felt like a retread of what I already knew. I didn't use the CD or flash cards that came with the textbook but, for the beginner, they might prove useful. For me, however, the book was too simplistic.

Execellent book	Customer Rating:
This book was very easy to use. It was just like vocabulary books you had in middle school. You start off learning things like prefixes, root words, suffixes etc. Then they start putting words together. It will help you understand medical terms when you break them down. The flash cards also help.

great text	Customer Rating:
This is a great way to learn medical terminology. It's easy to understand, interesting and presented in a way that makes it easier to learn than just straight memorization. I am planning on keeping this book and not reselling it, because I think it will be a great reference for future classes as well.