Exploring Medical Language: A Student-Directed Approach

**2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) McGuffey Longevity Award Winner** Master medical terms on your terms! A combination text/workbook, Exploring Medical Language: A Student-Directed Approach, 12th Edition, provides exercises that make it easy to build an understanding of medical terminology. Organized by body system, medical terms are divided into two categories: 1) Words built from word parts, and 2) Words NOT built from word parts. Fun and engaging exercises help you first learn word parts and then learn how to combine the parts into full medical terms that make sense. The text also comes packaged with paper flashcards. For more practice, you can visit an Evolve companion website with games, activities, flashcards, and practice exams. From well-known educators Danielle LaFleur Brooks, Dale Levinsky, and Myrna LaFleur Brooks, this learning package helps you gain fluency in medical language and communicate clearly in the health care setting. NEW! Capstone exercise, Scribe It, helps you draw on what you’ve learned from Exploring Medical Language to transcribe information from a patient encounter EXPANDED! Practical Application sections at end of chapters 2-16, called Use Medical Terms in Clinical Statements, enhance review and retention of chapter content EXPANDED! Focus on lab findings includes a narrative explanation and identification of terms indicating lab findings NEW! Added phonetic spelling for abbreviations spoken as whole words NEW! Introduction of the SOAP Note format and associated abbreviations ENHANCED! Behavioral health coverage includes narrative introduction Systematic presentation of medical terminology provides a foundation of word parts, then builds words by combining the parts Extensive review of word parts and terms offers the practice needed to learn medical terminology Accessible, interactive exercises and games on the accompanying Evolve website provide extensive opportunities to practice building, hearing, and spelling terms Medical Terminology Online (MTO) companion course offers additional practice and interactivity to support comprehension. Sold separately