Product Description: Featuring over 54,000 entries, this thoroughly updated Sixth Edition contains the medical terminology used in over 30 of today's fastest growing health profession areas--plus comprehensive inclusion of entries suited for the nursing field...read more

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Offers concise definitions and explanations of terms used in medicine and the life sciences

Product Description: Now in its 24th edition, Baillliere's Nurses' Dictionary is fully updated and revised to address the changing world of nursing and health services. This edition moves beyond the narrow medical focus of other pocket dictionaries and is firmly focused on the needs of today's nurses...read more

In this dictionary of medical words and phrases, entry words are clearly defined, reflect state-of-the-art medical research and practice, and avoid confusing jargon, including more than 1,300 new words that encompass the latest tests, diseases, treatments, and technology, as well as common medical abbreviations and health-care management and policy terms.

Product Description: The Melloni series of medical dictionaries are famous for their concise definitions and detailed illustrations. And Melloni's Pocket Medical Dictionary: Illustrated is no exception. A condensed and portable version of the award-winning and highly acclaimed Mellonis's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, the book features a wide range of beautifully drawn and carefully labeled illustrations to accompany the large number of expert and concise medical definitions...read more

Product Description: More than just a dictionary, Medical Meanings explores the history of medical terms. Written with bracing wit and a refreshing lack of pretense, this new edition has been completely revised and sharpened, and nearly 300 new words and phrases have been added...read more

Product Description: From "absolute risk" to "zero-sum game", this accessible introduction to the terminology of medical statistics encompasses more than 1500 clearly explained terms. The definitions are designed to make this work a user-friendly guide to the confusing world of medical statistics...read more

This best-selling dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions in an authoritative and accessible way. A must-have for all nurses, students of nursing, medical practitioners and professionals including midwives and health visitors.

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Featuring about 48,000 entries and 400 illustrations, most in full color, Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions, Illustrated, Fourth Edition with CD-ROM gives access to the core language of medicine and allied health, including terminology, definitions, useful images, tabular material, and valuable appendix sections. This new edition includes select nursing terminology, alternative British spellings, and Canadian content. This new edition of Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions is the ultimate quick-reference, core vocabulary resource for students, educators, and practitioners in the health professions. For super-quick reference, Concise on CD comes with every copy.

Product Description: The most comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health professionals, Taber's contains 56,486 entries (over 2,600 new terms) and more than 200 two-color clinically precise illustrations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase and minimal-core selection (#133) and Brandon/Hill Allied Health List selection (#73). Provides a comprehensive lexicon for practitioners and students. Includes a CD-ROM. Text alone listed in approval week 2000-4...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now in its fifth edition, this dictionary should be valuable both as a home medical guide and as an aid for all those working in the medical and allied professions. The entries are up-to-date, clearly laid out, and jargon-free, making the book both accessible and informative...read more

Taber's CD-ROM which accompanies the text, features a search-engine; hyperlinks to other texts and definitions; cut and paste, bookmarks, zoom and pan viewing of illustrations; audio pronunciation of terms; and demonstrations of procedures and anatomical explorations. (view table of contents)