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Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

31st Edition, Hardcover
2,200+ pages, 1,500+ illustrations + bonus CD-ROM
Size: 8.5" x 11.2"
ISBN 141602364X
9781416023647
Elsevier / WB Saunders
May 2007 (newest version)
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3oth Revised Edition, Electronic Edition
2,224 pages, 1,076 illustrations
ISBN 1416024212
Elsevier / WB Saunders / CV Mosby
September 2004
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The world's most trusted source on the language of medicine for over 100 years, it delivers more entries and better definitions than any other medical dictionary - so you can master more of the current terminology that you need to know.

For over 100 years, health care professionals have relied on Dorland's for its unmatched comprehensiveness, accuracy, clarity, and ease of use. Now, this is the world's finest medical dictionary features an all-new design with full-color, three-dimensional line art, color photography, and diagnostic and pathologic images.

  • Find any medical term you need to know! Over 120,000 entries - more than any other medical dictionary provides - include the latest drugs as well as extensive coverage of complimentary and alternative medicine.
  • Know exactly what each term means with definitions that are the richest, most accurate available.
  • Understand concepts visually by viewing more than 1500 extremely helpful illustrations, many in full color.
  • Find answers faster thanks to the most user-friendly format of any medical dictionary.
  • Take your word power even farther with the bonus CD-ROM! You can load the most essential medical terms and definitions onto your PDA ... spell medical terms correctly by installing the medical spell-checker software onto your computer ... and hear how words are pronounced by listening to audio recordings for over 35,000 terms.

This edition features more than 125,000 terms, including over 3,000 new terms -- over 800 related to complementary and alternative medicine -- as well as improved and expanded appendices.

An accompanying CD-ROM includes the Dorland's Spellchecker program. The CD-ROM that comes with the dictionary also allows you to install an e-book version on your PDA and a spell-checker on your PC. Both the e-book and spell-checker are easy to install and use, although both require web-access from your PC for installation. The spell-checker slots neatly into Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office - it contains all the words in the dictionary, and works well in Word XP. The installation even includes a test document to determine whether the installation was successful - a nice thoughtful touch.

A new, full-color design and art program makes reference even easier and more enjoyable, with... - Over 500 new full-color line drawings - Over 500 full-color photographs - Head words now in color - Color tables and appendices Approximately 800 new terms from Complementary and Alternative Medicine mirror the increasing popularity of non-traditional treatments. Appendices have been reorganized and expanded to feature additional material of interest to medical transcriptionists and other specialty groups.

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