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Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, Revised Edition is an invaluable resource for health-care professionals, with over 59,000 entries covering today's most widely used health-care terms, abbreviations, medication names, and biographies of medical pioneers.

Unlike unwieldy medical encyclopedias, Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, Revised Edition is compact, portable, and affordable, making it perfect for everyone from allied health students to medical professionals to consumers without a medical background who want a desktop reference without investing a lot of money.

KEY FEATURES:

; Concise and easy-to-read entries, which include thousands of examples of words used in context and hundreds of actual quotations from respected medical writers and publications ; Entries carefully researched and cross-referenced with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary to ensure they include the most widely used health-care terms and abbreviations ; Over 1,000 biographies of medical figures of historical importance ; Includes a medical writing style guide