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Medical Terminology & Anatomy for Coding. Edition No. 4

  • Book

  • May 2024
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5779160

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles� 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Dictionaries/Terminology**

Medical Terminology & Anatomy for Coding, 4th Edition?is unlike any other medical terminology textbook on the market! With interspersed ICD-10 and CPT coding guidelines and notes, electronic medical records, and integrated exercises, it combines anatomy and physiology coverage with the latest medical terminology needed by coders and coding students. The ICD-10-CM classification system serves as the structure for organizing diseases and disorders, with carefully drawn, well-labelled illustrations to help you visualize the associated anatomy. A new Infectious Disease Process Basics?appendix provides the terminology and physiology of infectious diseases. Updated CPT coding information indicates where physician coding differs from ICD-10 coding.

  • UNIQUE! Anatomy and physiology content covers everything students need to know to code in ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and CPT.
  • UNIQUE! Pathology terms organized by ICD-10 disease and disorder categories allow students to learn terms in the same order they are presented in the coding manual.
  • UNIQUE! Body Part key provides a complete list of body parts and how they should be coded in ICD-10.
  • NEW and UNIQUE! Infectious disease appendix provides the basic information coders and coding students need to be able to understand infectious diseases and to code them correctly.
  • NEW and UNIQUE! Additional CPT notes and updated ICD-10 guidelines highlight connections between terminology and codes.

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Table of Contents

Unit 1: Introduction to Medical Terminology

1. Introduction to Medical Terminology

2. Body Structure and Directional Terminology

Unit 2: Body Systems

3. Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue

4. Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue

5. Digestive System

6. Genitourinary System

7. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium

8. Blood, Blood-Forming Organs, and the Immune Mechanism

9. Circulatory System

10. Respiratory System

11. Nervous System

12. Mental and Behavioral Disorders

13. Eye and Adnexa

14. Ear and Mastoid Process

15. Endocrine System and Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Appendices

A: Pharmacology Basics

B: Oncology Basics

C: Infectious Disease Process Basics (NEW!)

D: Word Parts and Definitions

E: Definitions and Word Parts

F: Abbreviations

G: Normal Lab Values

H: Body Part Key

Authors

Betsy J. Shiland Former Assistant Professor, Allied Health Department, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Betsy Shiland has authored 2 very successful medical terminology texts, along with a statistics text for health information management students. She is a credentialed coder (CCS, CPC), an EMT, a cancer registrar, and a health data administrator. She taught at Central College in Philadelphia for over 20 years.