The perfect length for any course, this exceptional full-color, highly illustrated text/workbook uses a body system organization to focus on word building. This beautifully designed visual text combined with the audio CD, TermPlus 3.0, and student and instructor online tools is a unique learning package that’s a true blend of words, art, and technology.

Available in a Variety of Formats…

Medical Terminology Systems, 6th Edition (Text Only)
About $39.95 (US)|$41.95 (CAN)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-2090-2

Medical Terminology Systems, 6th Edition + Audio CD + TermPlus 3.0
About $49.95  (US)|$52.50 (CAN)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-2145-9

Word Building—the foundation for success begins with Barbara Gylys and the Body Systems Approach.

The med term approaches and how they differ…

• Most med terms books teach by memorization—the whole word approach.
• Memorize vocabulary and then try to recognize word patterns.

• Gylys uses the word-buildingapproach.
• First learn the patterns of medical words before you learn the vocabulary.

Why does word-building work? It begins with the basics…

• Gylys takes a common sense approach, by introducing word elements first:
• Roots
• Combining forms
• Suffixes
• Prefixes
• She covers them one by one, breaking down each word part.
• Common English word elements are presented…
• This familiarity makes it easier for students to learn and break apart and build words.
• Students can use their understanding of word parts to decipher vocabulary.
• Mnemonic devices, interactive activities (in the book and on the CD) make word-building fun and this in turn increases retention…no more tedious memorization, students learn by breaking down and rebuilding words!

“From my years of teaching, I found it was much easier for students to learn word parts directly associated with a body system (or specialty area), and this has been the key to my approach in all of my texts and software products.”
—Barbara A. Gylys

Building a better med term book with amazing features…

• Even Better! Easier reading level—geared toward all learners.
• New! Body Systems Connections table:
• Identifies interrelationship of each body system
• Helps put each system into clear perspective
• New! Audio activities and TermPlus 3.0 CD-Rom
• New! Full-color medical records.
• More diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Packed with brilliant full-color illustrations
• Complete Medical Records and key terms fill each body system chapter
• Flash-card activities packed in every chapter
• Common psychiatric terms included
• Expanded pharmacology section includes most commonly used drugs
• Appendices:
• Appendix of generic and trade drugs
• Two-way word element index: by medical word element and by common English term

Audio CD-ROM

• Audio CD with more than 300 listen-and-learn activities

NEW! TermPlus 3.0 CD-ROM

• Competency-based, self-paced, multimedia program
• Now totally non-browser dependent and Mac and PC compatible
• Loaded with activities:
• Anatomy Focus
• Word-Building and Word-Breakdown activities
• Drag-and-Drop
• Programmed Learning
• Spelling
• 12 Crossword Puzzles
• 12 Word Scrambles
• 12 Terminology Teasers
• Chart Notes—11 activities in all

Instructor Resources—available on CD-ROM (Item 2143-5) and DavisPlus

• 24 Power Point slideshows
• Wimba Electronic Test Bank
• Nearly 1,250 multiple-choice, true/false, short answer, and matching items
• Interactive Teaching Tool
• Loaded with activities for each body system—52 in all!
• Activity pack:
• NEW! Available as separate Word files for custom use.
• NEW! Resource Kit—upload into Blackboard or other learning management system.
• NEW! Clinical Connection Activities
• Crossword Puzzles
• Master Transparencies
• Suggested syllabi for various course lengths
• Supplemental medical record activities
• Activity pack (available exclusively on DavisPlus):
• Image bank with approximately 150 images