Product Description

The latest edition of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, the world's leading medical dictionary for over 100 years. Thoroughly revised and updated, it contains over 120,000 terms from all medical specialties, including expanded coverage of CAM, the latest drugs, Terminologia Anatomica, and thousands of new terms. Over 450 illustrations have been added, for a total of over 1500, and once again the latest versions of Dorland's Electronic Medical Speller and Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary, PDA version, are included at no cost, together with audio phonetics for over 35,000 terms, a brand new feature. Dorland's 31st edition continues the tradition of being the most complete, most authoritative medical dictionary available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26095 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2208 pages

Reviews
'Terse,clear,accurate' -JAMA, from a review of the 27th edition

"Carries on an impressive tradition of accuracy, clarity, and conciseness going back to the early years of the century, and users who prefer the medical dictionary with the brick-red covers will find...the same amiable and authoritative guide they have come to respect and trust." -JAMA

"Dorland's is reasonably priced and would be useful to anyone in the health care field. I cannot imagine a practitioner who would not want a copy of this dictionary in the office." -The Journal of Family Practice

Customer Reviews

Excellent Medical Dictionary
I have used the Dorland's Medical Dictionary for 25 years working in a hospital transcription position. This dictionary makes looking up words easy and in most cases I could find what I was looking for in here when I could not find it in the Stedman's. I am buying books for working at home and this is one of my first choices.

Excellent!
Completely overhauled for this new edition, this is a top-notch medical dictionary; coloured illustrations, photographs and tables are all used selectively to highlight points and facilitate understanding. The dictionary comes with a CD-ROM allowing you to install an e-book version on your PDA and a spell-checker on your PC. Both the e-book and spell-checker are easy to install and use, although both require web-access from your PC for installation.
The PDA version is a shortened version of the paper-based dictionary. The apparent lack of diagrams on the PDA version is a bit of a shame. In terms of searching for a word or abbreviation there is the usual index. The index is complemented with a search facility; this greatly speeds-up the ability to look-up words. As per the paper version there are also links between related definitions - flicking to and through these different links is easier on the PDA.
The spell-checker slots neatly into Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office - it contains all the words in the dictionary, and works well in Word XP. The installation even includes a test document to determine whether the installation was successful - a nice thoughtful touch.

The best medical dictionary.
Dorland's and Stedman's are the two premier medical dictionaries. Any physician or other person who requires frequent reference to medical definitions should probably own both (I do). Both books have occasional errors; each book has terms that the other lacks; and each book has some definitions that are superior to the those in the other. However, if you purchase only one, I recommend Dorland's. In my opinion, Dorland's has definitions for more terms, better definitions and fewer errors.