This edition offers comprehensive coverage of the terminology used in cardiology and pulmonary medicine, including new terms in interventional cardiology, echocardiography, and polysomnography. It also features appendix sections and anatomical illustrations for quick and ready reference. The main A-Z section lists terms in a main entry/subentry, cross-indexed format for easy access.

Covers equipment names, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, operations, new techniques and maneuvers, incisions, methods and approaches, syndromes and diseases, and anatomy terms that are based upon people's names.

This book "offers an authoriative assurance of quality and exactness to the wordsmiths of the healthcare professions - medical transcriptionists, medical editors and copyeditors, health information management personnel, court reporters, and the many other users and producers of medical documentation." - page xi.

This text/CD-ROM package equips medical transcription students and professionals with the terminology knowledge, transcription practice, and proofreading and editing skills to succeed in the field of cardiology. The book provides thorough coverage of terminology encountered in cardiology transcription, with definitions, descriptive illustrations, and cross-references to sample reports. Fifty proofreading and editing exercises with answer keys are included. A bonus CD-ROM contains audio dictation files encompassing various cardiology topics, dictation styles, and accents. Answer keys provide remediation for common errors. The CD-ROM also includes an audio pronunciation glossary, crossword puzzles, and matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, figure labeling, and spelling bee exercises.

This resource, in its Third Edition, features more than 100,000 entries of common as well as hard-to-find terms in the fields of: clinical and anatomical pathology, hematology, medical technology, blood banking, clinical chemistry, and histology. Authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date, it is organized for fast and easy look-up. Appendices include expanded sections on culture media, laboratory tests, and normal lab values; additionally this reference provides sample reports and illustrations. This publication is also available as a CD-ROM/Book Bundle.

Stedman's GI & GU Words, Third Edition is for the busy medical language specialist who must have the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative reference of common as well as hard-to-find gastroenterology, urology, and nephrology terminology, organized for quick and easy lookup at an affordable price.