Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary/No. 25

This new dictionary has the standard features of any Webster's dictionary: the type face, pronunciation and part of speech, some abbreviations, numbered meanings for multiple meaning terms, and well-researched definitions. British spellings are not defined but are referenced to their American equivalent. All terms are in natural language order, which makes this easier to use than either Dorland's or Stedman's medical dictionaries. This means named diseases are under their own names and not indented under "disease," for example. For eponymic terms the person for whom a term is named is listed under the term with brief biographical information. The definitions are written in clear, as-nontechnical-as-possible style. This is a welcome addition to the medical dictionary shelf in any library.