The expanded and updated edition of this practical dictionary for non-medical persons features highly detailed, all-new line illustrations, plus informative new diagrams and charts. The book also contains many new entries reflecting recent medical and pharmaceutical developments. The A-to-Z entries include descriptions and symptoms of diseases, first-aid procedures, human anatomy and body organs, dentistry, names and uses of common medications, and much more. Extensive cross-referencing helps readers find the information they are looking for.

Paperback:  674 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0764112015
Author/Editor:  Mikel A. Rothenberg, Charles F. Chapman (2000)

The Compact American Medical Dictionary is an important new reference book for those who need a better understanding of health and who want to make knowledgeable decisions on personal health-care issues. Incorporating features of the best-selling American Heritage(R) dictionaries, it defines up-to-date medical terms in an easy-to-understand, comprehensive manner. It's more than 10,000 entries address all areas of medicine and health. In addition, clear, useful drawings and charts detail aspects of the human anatomy as well as vital preventative health and wellness information.

Paperback:  512 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0395884098
Author/Editor:  by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries (1998)

An invaluable resource for health care professionals in understanding the language of contemporary health and medicine. It is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide of over 57,000 entries to todays most widely used health-care terms, abbreviations, medication names and more. Included are over 44,000 audio pronunciations and contains eight search options.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Mass Market Paperback:  800 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0877799148
Author/Editor:  Merriam-Webster, Roger W., Jr. Pease (1995)

• Expand your working medical vocabulary
• Work at your own pace to master the latest terms and techniques
• Learn all the essential Greek and Latin building blocks

Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies
What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, Fourth Edition, you’ll discover the answers to these questions and many more.

Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples. The step-by-step, clearly structured format of Quick Medical Terminology makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overview.

Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Quick Medical Terminology allows you to build gradually on what you have learned - at your own pace. Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for practitioners and students who need to expand, improve, or refresh their medical vocabularies.

Paperback:  320 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0471233595
Author/Editor:  Shirley Soltesz Steiner (2002)

An indispensable home medical reference--now updated with 500 new terms In today's world of managed care, more and more people are researching illnesses, medical procedures, and pharmaceuticals to make sure they know their options--and get the best possible treatment. Drawing on the expertise of more than seventy specialist physicians at MedicineNet.com, this up-to-the-minute dictionary gives people crystal-clear definitions of over 8,000 medical terms--and helps take the mystery out of healthcare decisions. Going beyond diseases and treatments, the book includes definitions of scientific terms, abbreviations, acronyms, and jargon--even institutions and research projects. Now updated to include the latest pharmaceuticals, procedures, and technologies and offering expanded coverage of herbal supplements--500 new entries in all--this dictionary is a must-have reference for every home medical library. Readers can access the full, searchable dictionary right on their own computers. The CD allows readers to instantly link to the MedicineNet.com website where they can; try out the Drug Interaction Tool, read in-depth articles in over 650 topic areas, bone-up on current health news, and read editorials on medical topics. MedicineNet.com is one of the Web's most highly regarded sources of medical information. A PC magazine Editor's Choice, the site has more than 7.5 million page views and 1.2 million unique visitors every month.

Paperback:  408 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0764524615
Author/Editor:  Medicinenet. Com, Frederick M. Hecht, ...(2003)

"Definitions are clear and concise...Excellent system of cross-referencing is used...Fine reference."

Paperback:  544 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  0553581899
Author/Editor:  Laurence Urdang (2002)

Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase and minimal-core selection (#133) and Brandon/Hill Allied Health List selection (#73). Previous edition: c1995. Provides a comprehensive, current, and accurate medical lexicon to medical and allied health professionals. This edition includes Terminologia Anatomica, Genus Finder, Anatomy Tables, and more. DNLM: Medicine--Dictionary-Engl.

Hardcover:   2098 pages
Language:  English
ISBN:  068340007X
Author/Editor:  Thomas Lathrop Stedman