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This carefully designed worktext emphasizes word-building with just enough content on the anatomy of each body system to help you understand the related disease as well as diagnostic and surgical terms. Emphasis is placed on analyzing and defining medical terms, as well as techniques for building medical terms from roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

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9781401897505

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Medical Terminology Building Blocks General Body Terminology Integumentary System Skeletal System Muscular System Cardiovascular System Blood and Lymph Systems Respiratory System Digestive System Urinary System Endocrine System Male Reproductive System Female Reproductive System and Pregnancy Nervous System Sensory System: Vision and Hearing Specialty Terminology Appendix A: Word Element to Meaning, Meaning to Word Element B: Abbreviation List C: Health-Related Web Sites Index

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Marie A. Moisio, M.A., RHIA, has 25 years of experience in health information management. In addition to teaching medical billing, medical coding and health information processing for more than 15 years, she served as director of health information departments in a 400-bed regional medical center and a 450-bed regional psychiatric treatment facility. Her professional experience also includes service as a consultant for several long-term care facilities and physician offices as well as positions in health information management, compliance, coding practices, insurance claim auditing and patient record documentation. Moisio has taught numerous workshops covering legal aspects of health information management and documentation. She is also the author of A GUIDE TO HEALTH INSURANCE BILLING and UNDERSTANDING LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC TESTS.

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