Mosby's Medical Dictionary

By C.V. Mosby Publishing Company

Featuring comprehensive definitions and vivid, full-color illustrations, Mosby's Medical Dictionary is the source to trust for answers to your questions about medical procedures, lab tests, disorders and conditions, medical equipment, human anatomy, and more. Its user-friendly, highly visual approach offers large, easy-to-read type and a logical organization that makes it easy to look up unfamiliar terms quickly. In this edition, more than 10,000 entries have been revised and updated, and over 5,000 new entries have been added to keep pace with recent advances in health care.Comprehensive, authoritative definitions - including expanded definitions of major diseases, disorders, procedures, and drugs - offer the most accurate, complete information on medical and health care terminology available.
Practical, straightforward alphabetical organization, with no confusing subentries, makes it easy to find definitions fast.
Updated, expanded drug entries include the latest commonly prescribed drugs currently on the market.
Hundreds of lab test definitions describe and explain key lab tests.
Definitions for more than 50 complementary and alternative medical therapies have been added, and definitions for over 100 herbs have been updated, reflecting the growing popularity of these alternative treatments.
Pronunciations and eponyms for key entries assist the reader in learning and using terminology in everyday practice.
Large, clear type is easy to read, and colored entries are easy to find.
British spellings of selected entries help users recognize alternate spellings.
Color Atlas of Human Anatomy contains dozens of full-color, clearly labeled drawings of all body systems, to assist with learning or reviewing anatomy.
Nearly 2,500 colorful photographs and drawings illustrate all subject areas - more than 800 new 5,000 new definitions have been added, representing all areas of medicine and health care, with special emphasis on definitions related to new drugs, health professions, changes in health care delivery, bioterrorism, and new technological developments.
Material has been thoroughly reviewed by a board of more than 100 expert consultants representing all areas of medicine to ensure the accuracy and currency of content and the inclusion of appropriate new entries.
More than 10,000 definitions have been updated and revised to reflect current practice, and obsolete terminology has been removed.
Over 70 definitions for such key conditions as SARS have been expanded to contain comprehensive, detailed information.
New colored entry words clearly stand out on the page, making it easier to find terms.
All tables have been updated, and more than 800 new illustrations have been added.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323039421
• ISBN13: 9780323039420
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 2080 Pages
• Weight: 5.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.5" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Better Lucky than Smart

I ordered Tabers Cyclopedic guide first, but it arrived with some pages damaged in binding. And it seemed compressed in size and with its explanations. So I sent it back (thank you damage) and switched to Mosby's. Hooray! Bigger & better & more thorough with LOTS of pictures. The words searched for are printed in blue, with the definitions in black, making it easy to scan for your subject. Lucky me.

GREAT FOR STUDENTS GOING INTO A MEDICAL FIELD

I am currently in nursing school and I ordered this book after I had looked at a classmate's. I already had "Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary" and a "Merck Manual" and was happy with those until I saw my classmate's "Mosby's Medical Dictionary". The Mosby's is as good as the "Taber's" but not as "technical". What makes it better than the others is that it is great for students because it's definitions are more simply stated but still gives the same information. It also has A LOT MORE illustrations than other medical dictionaries. It also has MANY extras like a "Color Atlas of Human Anatomy"(was VERY useful in Anatomy) and also an Online Resource Center that includes Assessment Guides, Health Promotion, Infection Control, Common Drug Interaction, etc. I absolutely love my "Mosby's" and wouldn't trade it for any other medical dictionary!!!

A Great Help

After working in factories all my life and recently losing my job due to outsourcing I felt I needed a career change. I enrolled in the medical terminology class in my area and ordered the Mosby's Medical Dictionary. My initial reason for choosing Mosby's was the price. I was extremely happy with the purchase I made once I received the book and started looking through it. I love that it is loaded with color photographs and illustrations. The only thing I wish this dictionary had was thumb index, but I can live without it.

5 to the 10th Power In Stars

They should really raise the star point system here, because anything by Mosby is worth the buy. I have the Mosby's Medical Dictionary for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, and when I saw this book in the store, I was trying to figure out the difference, because of the color. This one offers just as many details as my previous book. This is important, because it is an easy read, and it is necessary for each household to have, for children to study off of, to the housewife that just wants to be informed. Mosby has been following me through nursing school, and anything they sell as a study aide will have a place in my home.

This dictionary makes looking up words fun.

I bought Mosby's because it's easy to read and look up medical terms. I'm learning the language and this book is formatted for easy readability. The numerous illustrations are all in color which I found informative. It's definitely a user-friendly dictionary.