Dictionary of Medical Terms
| Dictionary of Medical Terms | |
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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 |
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| Medical Dictionary : A Concise and Up-To-Date Guide to Medical Terms | |
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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 |
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| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary | |
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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 |
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| Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide | |
Learn at your own pace with the guidebook that has sold over 400,000 copies
Paperback: 320 pages |
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| Webster's New World Medical Dictionary | |
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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 |
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| The Bantam Medical Dictionary : Third Revised Edition | |
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"Definitions are clear and concise...Excellent system of cross-referencing is used...Fine reference."
Paperback: 544 pages |
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| Stedman's Medical Dictionary | |
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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 |
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| Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary | |
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"Few illustrated medical dictionaries achieve the stature of this book. It is not simply a medical dictionary but a trove of more than 3,000 remarkable illustrations. Nearly all are the extraordinary line drawings that have become the hallmark of the Melloni dictionaries…This book will be a valuable resource for students in the health sciences, and for undergraduates, readers in public libraries, and high school students." - L.M. McMain, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA in CHOICE, July 2002 "This is a one-of-a-kind dictionary. …The unique quality of the dictionary is the inclusion of nice illustrations. …I love this dictionary!" - LouAnn Schraffenberger, RHIA, CCS, SSC-P, University of Illinois, Chicago School of Biomed and Health Info Management, for Doody's Notes
Hardcover: 778 pages |
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| Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations | |
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Third edition of a Brandon/Hill Medical list selection. Standard reference work for libraries, students, physicians, and all health care professionals. Focuses on acronyms and abbreviations that occur fairly frequently in the health care literature. Previous edition: c1993. Trim size: 7 x 5 inches. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Paperback: 523 pages |
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| Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary | |
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The new edition of this best-selling dictionary offers readers maximum definition! Meticulously revised and updated to reflect all the changes in nursing and allied health today, the sixth edition features over 3,000 new entries, more than 1,100 new illustrations, and a wealth of new appendices making this the most current, user-friendly dictionary available. With its large, easy-to-read typeface; strict alphabetical organization with no subentries; comprehensive definitions; detailed drug entries; and a Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Mosby's MEDICAL, NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH DICTIONARY, 6th EDITION offers readers easy access to comprehensive information.
Hardcover: 2134 pages |
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| Gray's Pocket Medical Dictionary | |
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Gray's Pocket Medical Dictionary (Paperback)
Paperback: 367 pages |
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| Dictionary of Medical Eponyms | |
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Attractively priced softcover edition of Firkin and Whitworth's internationally popular dictionary of medical eponyms used in internal medicine. Each entry tells the meaning of the eponym and provides bibliographic information about the person. The authors’ considerable scholarship and the care they devote to their work is evident in their Introduction to this updated edition of the book: "This book is an endeavor to list eponyms used in the practice of internal medicine in most of the English-speaking countries in the world. It will help nurses and medical students as well as practitioners, not only to inform them as to the usage of these terms but wherever possible to indicate briefly a little of the person whose name is used eponymously."
Paperback: 450 pages |
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| Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary with CD-ROM | |
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Since 1898, Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary has continuously maintained the standard as the world's most convenient, user-friendly, portable reference on medical terminology. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest advances in medicine, this 28th edition delivers the accurate, clear, up-to-date definitions you expect from Dorland's - in a highly compact, easy-to-use format. Bonus software lets you add hundreds of thousands of medical terms to your computer's spell-checker.
Paperback: 992 pages |
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