Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary: Deluxe)
Edition: 29th Delux edition
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 2088
ISBN-13: 9780721682617
Subjects: Medicine; Reference works; Dictionaries & Terminology; Medical / Nursing; Reference
Description: Comprehensive biomedical dictionary that reflects standard and current terminology derived from medicine and related disciplines.  Changes involve deletions and additions in entries to conform with advances in knowledge, elaboration in certain fields, redrawn artwork, and rearrangement of certain entries.  Official nomenclatures from various fields used in compilation.  Also includes eponyms, acronyms, abbreviations, and botanical terms, as well as generic and trade names of many drugs.  Entries include pronunciation, derivation, plural, definition, and subentries.  Cross references.  Illustrations throughout.  1st ed., 1900; 28th ed., 1994