Collins Dictionary Medicine

This completely revised and updated edition is an invaluable reference work for medical and nursing students, health service professionals, and everyone requiring an authoritative guide to modern medical terminology. 10,000 entries on the theory and practice, as well as pharmacology, virology, psychiatry and dentistry Also includes terminology relevant to nursing, radiography, orthoptics, laboratory and operating theatre technology, forensic and social medicine, and public health administration Descriptions of a wide variety of diseases, syndromes and conditions Generic and proprietary names of a broad range of important drugs Illustrations of all the major body systems