Current medical terminology

The latest edition of Vera Pyle's best selling "silver book" has 720 pages of new, difficult, and hard-to-find medical terms, medications, procedures, and instruments! Thousands of abbreviations, acronyms, brief forms, and procedures are translated and defined. Extensive cross-referencing assures success in finding needed words and phrases, medical devices, and terminology. Concise definitions and examples of use in dictation make this glossary unique among reference books. Quick-reference lists include approximately 1500 medical devices, 2500 medications, 1500 procedures, 500 tests, 400 diseases, 300 syndromes, 300 MRI terms, and 200 pathogens. (Also available in CD-ROM version for Windows users.)