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Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health
from: W.B. Saunders Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.3
EAN: 9780721697918
Edition: 7th
ISBN: 0721697917
Label: W.B. Saunders Company
Manufacturer: W.B. Saunders Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 2262
Publication Date: March 08, 2003
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
Studio: W.B. Saunders Company
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Editorial Review:
Encyclopedia and dictionary serves as a current, comprehensive vocabulary source for the health sciences. Includes 3,900 new entries, with archaic and obsolete terms deleted. The latest changes for diagnosis-related groups, nursing diagnoses, and other key nursing taxonomies are included. Revised tables and illustrations. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Excellent book!
This is an excellent source for both medical professionals and students. The book provides detailed descriptions and varied illustrations. I would highly recommend this book!
Rating: - Such a resource, for so many
If you are a nursing or medical student, or have family or friends that you would like to understand their symptoms and diagnosis, this is a very clear and yet comprehensive resource. As a student of a university RN program, this book has proved invaluable in clarifying my course work. A quality gift for anyone about to enter a higher education medical program or for someone who desires a better understanding of unfamiliar terms due to illness, condition, tests, and symptoms.
Rating: - Best around I have seen. We have added to our science museum
We have added a copy of this to our science museum library. If you had to pick just one book to figure things out with and you cuold take only one book to a mythical desert island.... this would have to be it for general medicine!
Rating: - Lisa Surgical/Trauma RN
I wish I would have had this book when I was going to school. This book not only defines virtually every medical term but elaborates on essential areas. The beginning of the book is a color atlas of all body systems. eg. Skeletal,GI, Cranial Nerves, Muscles ect. It is then organized as a Dictionary from A-Z. There are clear pictures to help elaborate on definitions and explanations. An example is in the area of Intercranial Pressure. Not only is it defined, it is also explained in detail including ... Read More
Rating: - Quality nursing dictionaries
Having used many nursing dictionaries, this one is by far the best. It is very clear and amazingly comprehensive. At the front there is a short anatomy guide followed by a colour atlas. The bulk of the text is fantastic; good diagrams and flow charts throughout reinforce learning and an invaluble pronunciation guide for those of us that haven't studied Latin. To complete, a large Appendix section is included which provides a wealth of useful information for the reader. Although US and Canada focused, ... Read More
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