William Alexander Newman Dorland Bücher

A great medical dictionary--in a take-along size! Based on the gold standard of the medical community, the 26th edition covers the must-know vocabulary, including 2800 new terms. All anatomy terms reflect the new Terminologia Anatomica, and 500 new drug terms reflect the 2000 editions of the USP and PDR. It also provides full-color illustrations and helpful charts and tables so all terminology is easy to understand!Includes hyphenation, syllabication and revised pronunciation guidelinesFeatures a 16-page full colour anatomical insertOver 2,800 totally new entries have been added, to reflect the latest advances and the most current usageNew lists of current medical abbreviations and anatomic terms give you fingertip access to the information you refer to frequentlySpecial emphasis on pharmacology, including 500 new drug termsSuitable for medical, nursing and allied health practitioners, students, lawyers, insurance professionals to the healthcare industry

Offers definitions for more than 35,000 medical terms.

Comprehensive biomedical dictionary that reflects standard and current terminology derived from medicine and related disciplines. Changes involve deletions and additions in entries to conform with advances in knowledge, elaboration in certain fields, redrawn artwork, and rearrangement of certain entries. Official nomenclatures from various fields used in compilation. Also includes eponyms, acronyms, abbreviations, and botanical terms, as well as generic and trade names of many drugs. Entries include pronunciation, derivation, plural, definition, and subentries. Cross references. Illustrations throughout. 1st ed., 1900; 28th ed., 1994.