Twinkie defense? A message to Garcia? Darwin's bulldog? What exactly do these phrases mean? This absorbing cultural dictionary identifies and explains 1,200 verbal allusions, shedding light on world events as well as the verbal shorthand inherited from past generations.
In addition to language translation guides, a tabular atlas of human anatomy and physiology, lists of leading health problems, guidelines for relating to patients from different cultures, nutrition, pediatrics, pharmacology, communicable diseases, and nursing diagnoses, this dictionary contains approximately 2,000 full-color illustrations to enhance and clarify the definitions. Over 6,000 new entries. Thumb-indexed.