This dictionary presents an explanation of terms which relate to crude drugs from the vegetable, animal, and mineral kingdoms. Definitions include pronunciation and are often more lengthy than in traditional dictionaries. Forty-one appendices include information such as laboratory values, abbreviations, symbols, and weights and measures. Biological Terms Eleanor Lawrence Includes definitions of biological terms, and common abbreviations and acronyms. This book is designed to offer immunologists and non-immunologists alike a resource for many of the basic terms encountered in contemporary immunological literature.
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