The American Heritage(R) Stedman's Medical Dictionary is an important new reference work for everyone concerned with medicine and health care today, including those working in the fields of insurance, law, and allied health. It combines the professional, technical, and scientific expertise of the well-known Stedman's medical publications with the best-selling features of The American Heritage(R) dictionaries. Important features include: more than 45,000 entries, including general and specialized medical terms and essential terms from related scientific areas such as biology and biochemistry; strict alphabetical arrangement of entries, following The American Heritage(R) Dictionary, Third Edition, for ease of use; clear, complete, and accurate definitions that professionals can rely on, written in language that nonspecialists can understand; thousands of new words, from acupressure to zalcitabine, selected from the American Heritage(R) database and from citations drawn from current print sources.
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This spinoff of Stedman's Medical Dictionary (Williams
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The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries and of other reference titles published by Houghton Mifflin Company are trained lexicographers with a varied array of interests and expertise. Most of the editors hold graduate degrees and have studied at least one foreign language. Several have degrees in linguistics or in the history of the English language. Others have degrees in science or sometimes other disciplines. All the editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work in association with consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary (Hardcover)
I am a medical transcriptionist and not only need to be able to spell medical terms but also need to know how medical terms relate contextually to what I am typing. What I liked about Stedman's is the in-depth illustrations...for instance, nerves, skeleton, muscular structure. If I know the word is a kind of nerve but cannot quite understand the doctor, I can look at these illustrations, read over the names and then listen again with a better knowledge of what I am listening for. Also, Stedman's has a unique feature which I use all the time. Under "disease", there are listed many types of diseases. Under "test", there are listed the names of many standard medical tests that are given. This book is invaluable to my work!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary (Hardcover)
I am a medical transcriptionist and not only need to be able to spell medical terms but also need to know how medical terms relate contextually to what I am typing. What I liked about Stedman's is the in-depth illustrations...for instance, nerves, skeleton, muscular structure. If I know the word is a kind of nerve but cannot quite understand the doctor, I can look at these illustrations, read over the names and then listen again with a better knowledge of what I am listening for. Also, Stedman's has a unique feature which I use all the time. Under "disease", there are listed many types of diseases. Under "test", there are listed the names of many standard medical tests that are given. This book is invaluable to my work!
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