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Stay up to date on fast-changing areas of health care with the 75th anniversary edition of this trusted medical dictionary. Expanded coverage familiarizes you with the most current medical terminology in evolving areas such as genetics, complementary therapies, and sports rehabilitation, while detailed illustrations help clarify definitions and ensure confident understanding. - Reliable, easy-to-read definitions for more than 12,000 terms. - A full-color section that illustrates the body systems in vivid detail. - An extensive array of appendices that provide quick access to important information. - A concise, compact format that ensures portability and ease-of-use. Online resources with:• Spellchecker for uploading to your computer• Full image bank of all the illustrations in the dictionary• Colour illustrations of the major body systems, both labelled and unlabelled, for self-testing• 30 additional colour photographs to help identify selected conditions• Basic Life Support (BLS) Algorithms from the current Resuscitation Guidelines• Normal values table of references ranges for hormones in venous blood • Extensive list of web links to useful organisations
The dictionary is designed to be a pocket companion, for ready access by students, postgraduates, trainers, and health professionals involved in sport and exercise. It provides definitions and short accounts of terms used and techniques employed in the study and practical application of the relevant anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and psychology, and of commonly associated medical problems and treatments. Illustrations are included in the A-Z text, and appendices provide additional reference information and sources for further study. - Wide coverage in A-Z text of relevant basic and applied topics relevant to sport and exercise. - Full contact information for professional associations. - Illustrations, graphs and tables. - Team of expert contributors.
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a dictionary of terms used in imaging departments covering radiography, radiotherapy, imaging, radionuclide imaging, ultrasound, MRI, associated medical terms, associated anatomical terms, quality assurance, computers, physics.Historical and modern terminology includedComprehensiveIllustrated
The book includes terms that are the concern of all nurses and terms that are relevant to specific areas of practice. The focused nursing information is supplemented by the inclusion of some applied anatomy & physiology, important items from the medical and surgical specialties, and some basic psychology and sociology. Numerous in-depth entries explore issues rather than just provide a basic definition. There are, of course, a proportion of shorter definitions. The intentions are to use references in the in-depth entries and provide readers with other sources of information on the topic. Because the book does not attempt to cover other related areas the opportunity exists to provide comprehe...
This book provides a handy A-Z reference source for busy health care professionals. It covers over 200 topics including concepts, organisations and issues which inform health care delivery now. It reflects the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency nature of health services as well as the importance of consumer and patient issues.
O This 14th edition has been extensively revised and updated, new terms and topics relevant to present practice have been included. Over 1000 new entries have been added with each entry scrutinized by a medical expert, and word breaks are indicated to help with typing. Six appendices give detailed information to supplement the vocabulary presented in the dictionary.