“The Language of Medicine” (13th edition, Elsevier), by Davi-Ellen Chabner, presents a new edition of a medical textbook designed to allow students to learn medical terminology and biology required to work in multiple healthcare fields. Given the broad membership of EURETINA, medical students and experts alike may provide a valuable resource across the multinational backgrounds of our members in the field. Elsevier’s author provides exhaustive terms and complex medical processes to understand at many learning levels “with an approach that explains terms in the context of anatomy and physiology, as well as how the body works in health and disease”. The textbook is organized by twenty (20) chapters from head to toe with additional key areas of healthcare, such as cancer and psychiatry, and accompanied by full-colour illustrations, exercises, and supplemental resources aimed to reinforce the student’s comprehension establishing a practical foundation for working in multiple fields of healthcare.
The textbook has now provided a 13th edition with a clear and straightforward approach to understand without any previous medical or scientific background. Real-life applications of terminology are provided and each chapter breaks down terms phonetically to support students to master proper pronunciations. Medical report exercises in each chapter utilize chart notes, histories, and reports to give students exercises to practice working with realistic documents. In addition, the textbook provides a companion CD to identify terms by their pronunciation and how to review terms through games, study tips, photographs, video clips, and animations. An Elsevier website (“Evolve”, https://evolve.elsevier.com) enables how to assess and understand with quizzes for each chapter to identify specific areas for review.
The textbook is well structured throughout, covering from basic word structures and language and running through each body system – digestion, reproduction, cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, vision and further on oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, pharmacology and psychiatry. There is an additional four comprehensive appendices on plurals, abbreviations, acronyms, and eponyms; normal hematologic reference values and implications of abnormal results and, finally, a compendium of drugs. Finally, there is a “mini-dictionary” and a glossary, included in the textbook, with the definitions and phonetic pronunciation
English, Book ISBN: 9780443107795; page xxi to 1,072 pages (incl. 521 illustrations). Copyright year: 2025; Book format: 216w (mm) x 276h (mm); Publication Date 08-02-2024