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Available
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Philadelphia, PA : Saunders
ISBN
9780721601465
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.
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CONTENTS:
Selected abbreviations used in medicine
Selected abbreviations used in medicine
Anatomical appendix
Arteries
Bones, listed by regions of the body
Bones
Muscles
Nerves
Veins
Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature equivalents
Multiples and submultiples of the metric system
Weights and measures
Metric doses with approximate apothecary equivalents
Reference values for the interpretation of laboratory tests
Amino acids
Cavity angles
Chief malaria
carrying anopheles species of the world
Table of arteriae
Human blood group systems and erythrocytic antigenic determinants
Black's classification of dental caries
Cholecalciferol and related metabolites of vitamin D
Symbols used in chromosome nomenclature
Genetic code
Proteins of the complement system
Table of culture media
Table of elements
Some naturally occurring fatty acids
Hyperlipoproteinemias
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Mediators of immediate hypersensitivity
Primary immunodeficiency disorders, diseases and syndromes
Human immunoglobulins
Common plasma lipoprotein classes
Human T lymphocyte cell
surface markers
Surface markers of lymphocytes
Working formulation of non
Hodgkin's lymphomas for clinical usage
Angle's classification of malocclusion
Human adenoviruses
Table of musculi
Selected etiologic agents of mycetoma
Table of nervi
Oncogenes
Organophosphorus insecticides
NASPE/BPEG generic (NBG) pacemaker code
Positions of the fetus in various presentations
Rule of nines
Senses
Important venomous snakes
Stains and staining methods
Selected technetium Tc 99m radiopharmaceuticals
Table of tests
Table of venae
Table of vitamins.
Selected abbreviations used in medicine
Selected abbreviations used in medicine
Anatomical appendix
Arteries
Bones, listed by regions of the body
Bones
Muscles
Nerves
Veins
Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature equivalents
Multiples and submultiples of the metric system
Weights and measures
Metric doses with approximate apothecary equivalents
Reference values for the interpretation of laboratory tests
Amino acids
Cavity angles
Chief malaria
carrying anopheles species of the world
Table of arteriae
Human blood group systems and erythrocytic antigenic determinants
Black's classification of dental caries
Cholecalciferol and related metabolites of vitamin D
Symbols used in chromosome nomenclature
Genetic code
Proteins of the complement system
Table of culture media
Table of elements
Some naturally occurring fatty acids
Hyperlipoproteinemias
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Mediators of immediate hypersensitivity
Primary immunodeficiency disorders, diseases and syndromes
Human immunoglobulins
Common plasma lipoprotein classes
Human T lymphocyte cell
surface markers
Surface markers of lymphocytes
Working formulation of non
Hodgkin's lymphomas for clinical usage
Angle's classification of malocclusion
Human adenoviruses
Table of musculi
Selected etiologic agents of mycetoma
Table of nervi
Oncogenes
Organophosphorus insecticides
NASPE/BPEG generic (NBG) pacemaker code
Positions of the fetus in various presentations
Rule of nines
Senses
Important venomous snakes
Stains and staining methods
Selected technetium Tc 99m radiopharmaceuticals
Table of tests
Table of venae
Table of vitamins.
Other editions
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary by W.A. Newman Dorland (Paper Book)