Third edition of a smaller version of Stedman's Medical Dictionary, intended for allied health students and practitioners. Thumb-indexed. Previous edition entitled Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary Illustrated (1994). DNLM: Dictionaries, Medical.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Extremely helpful reference book.:
This reference book came highly recommended by a professor teaching an Online Medical Terminology class. It is just as the title states - Concise. You don't need to be a doctor to understand the descriptions of the medical terms. This was my first health care oriented class and I found it an extremely helpful tool that I will keep forever.
Essential and Useful Reference:
I have had this book for the past few years. This is an essential and highly convenient medical dictionary. As a compact reference, I have been able to find the definitions to at least 90% of the words I have been looking for. The accompanying dictionary is an amazing and useful program to have installed on the computer. The pictures/images in the printed dictionary are great to help illustrate various definitions. There are even several pages of photo-quality images in the middle of the book. The... more info
Superb work of reference:
This concise medical dictionary is not concise at all: it gives all the information one needs, accompanied by very clear and informative drawings and pictures and it even gives the reader the correct pronunciation of the word. The alphabet tags on the side of the book (they give the first two letters of the words on that page rather than only the first letter) are a major help for a quick reference.
I am "only" a biomedical scientist and not an M.D., but this book is very important in my daily work to... more info
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