Exploring Medical Language

**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 encounterEXPANDED! Practical Application sections at end of chapters 2-16, called Use Medical Terms in Clinical Statements, enhance review and retention of chapter contentEXPANDED! Focus on lab findings includes a narrative explanation and identification of terms indicating lab findingsNEW! Added phonetic spelling for abbreviations spoken as whole wordsNEW! Introduction of the SOAP Note format and associated abbreviationsENHANCED! Behavioral health coverage includes narrative introductionSystematic presentation of medical terminology provides a foundation of word parts, then builds words by combining the partsExtensive review of word parts and terms offers the practice needed to learn medical terminologyAccessible, interactive exercises and games on the accompanying Evolve website provide extensive opportunities to practice building, hearing, and spelling termsMedical Terminology Online (MTO) companion course offers additional practice and interactivity to support comprehension. Sold separately