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Syllabication is indicated with boldface dots followed by phonological pronunciation.
Boldface guide words at the top of each double-page spread indicate first and last entries. Multiple definitions of terms are numbered sequentially, proceeding from the most common to the most technical. The editors' goal is to provide a medical dictionary for a general audience and, to this end, there are variations from the standard medical dictionary format. The major difference is that there are main entries for terms that would appear as subentries in a medical dictionary. For example, specific diseases and syndromes appear as main entries.