Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

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Previous editions of this esteemed reference, first published in 1900, are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed., Guide to Reference Books, and Brandon-Hill. To make even those with an old and beloved edition crave the new one, the dictionary is in color for the first time: head words are in red with definitions in black, and 475 color line drawings, 600 color photographs, and color tables and appendices energize the contents. Some 800 new terms from alternative medicine have been added, for a total of more than 123,000 entries (with pronunciation). Appendices have been reorganized and expanded with additional material of interest to medical transcriptionists and other specialty groups. The included CD-ROM adds hundreds of thousands of medical terms to any computer's spell-checker (or 35,000 definitions to a handheld device); and buyers receive complimentary access to a complementary website.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Info
Brandon/Hill Medical List selection (#156) and Brandon/Hill Allied Health selection (#75). Text includes more than 118,000 entries defining more than 122,000 terms, with more than 600 new entries added. Features more than 1,100 color plates and new, updated appendices, tables, and charts. Thumb-indexed. For students, residents, and clinicians. Previous edition: c2000.


From the Publisher
The aim of the author of this work has been to produce, in a volume of convenient size, an up-to-date Medical Dictionary, sufficiently full for the various requirements of all.... The book does not claim to be an encyclopedia; it is a dictionary, a concise and convenient word-book, aiming to furnish full definitions of the terms of medicine and kindred branches.... The author has sought a middle course between the large, unwieldy lexicon and the abridged students' dictionary, avoiding the disadvantages of each.


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& Previous editions of this esteemed reference, first published in 1900, are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed., Guide to Reference Books, and Brandon-Hill. To make even those with an old and beloved edition crave the new one, the dictionary is in color for the first time: head words are in red with definitions in black, and 475 color line drawings, 600 color photographs, and color tables and appendices energize the contents. Some 800 new terms from alternative medicine have been added, for a total of more than 123,000 entries (with pronunciation). Appendices have been reorganized and expanded with additional material of interest to medical transcriptionists and other specialty groups. The included CD-ROM adds hundreds of thousands of medical terms to any computer's spell-checker (or 35,000 definitions to a handheld device); and buyers receive complimentary access to a complementary website. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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