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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions is a dictionary of health-related topics. The 8th edition, published in 2009, contains 2,240 pages and 2,400 colour illustrations. It includes some encyclopaedic definitions and 12 appendixes containing reference information. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... to sidebar hide. This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions about medicine, its sub-disciplines, and ...
The Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health is written for use by students and health care providers including medics, nurses, and paramedics. The entries are alphabetical and compiled with multidisciplinary collaboration.
A page from Robert James's A Medicinal Dictionary; London, 1743-45 An illustration from Appleton's Medical Dictionary; edited by S. E. Jelliffe (1916). The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. [1] Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the first century AD.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary is a medical dictionary developed for medical students, physicians, researchers, and medical language specialists. Entries include medical terms, abbreviations, acronyms, measurements, and more. Pronunciation and word etymology (showing mostly Latin and Greek prefixes and roots) are provided with most definitions.
In addition to the Saunders titles in English, there have also been numerous translated co-editions around the world. Listed below are the latest translated co-editions of the flagship product Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, together with the languages for the translations and the names of the publishers:
Black's Medical Dictionary (42nd ed, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-0419-4) is a comprehensive medical dictionary featuring definitions of medical terms, concepts and conditions, published by A & C Black Publishers. It was first published in 1906, and is now in its forty-second edition.
The Merck Manuals (outside the U.S. and Canada: The MSD Manuals; Chinese: 默沙东诊疗手册; pinyin: Mòshādōng Zhěnliáo Shǒucè) are medical references published by the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada), that cover a wide range of medical topics, including disorders, tests, diagnoses, and drugs.