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This textbook offers students the ability to learn basic medical terminology to prepare them for education and a profession in the medical field. This text book has been adapted from the Building a Medical Terminology Foundation OER textbook by Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford, which was adapted from the OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology textbook by Betts et al. Changes were made to the Building a Medical Terminology Foundation textbook to better suit the needs of our specific learners. These changes include the following:

Some anatomy and physiology content was deemed excessive relative to the goals of a medical terminology textbook and was therefore removed.Interactive H5P elements that corresponded to this excessive anatomy and physiology content were also removed accordingly.The skeletal and muscular systems are combined into a single chapter.Separate chapter sections were created for structural terms and word parts, diseases and disorders, and medical, surgical & viewing terms and abbreviations. The word lists in these sections were also expanded from the original text.Individual chapters were divided and modularized on Pressbooks to reduce the need to scroll and to allow students to leave and return to the text as they need without losing their place in the text.

When possible, images were replaced with images that provided a more diverse representation of people.

The term “gender” was changed to “sex” (see the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Inclusive Language Guidelines for more details on this decision).

A short comparison of the male and female pelvic bones was added to inform the learner of the distinction between the two since the male skeleton is often presented as the universal form when it is not.

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