Compilation of terms, many of recent vintage, that are integral to the language of modern medicine. Includes acronyms, jargon, neologisms, and the argot of new disciplines, diseases, their diagnosis and therapies.

This text includes 20,000 alphabetized entries for current medical acronyms and terms. The entries also consist of encyclopedic definitions, clinical aspects of medical terms, and references to popular medical journals.

This clear and comprehensive reference on the full range of healing herbs is an indispensable guide to the herbal remedies most used in the Anglo-American and European traditions. Each remedy is defined in terms of its main pharmacological actions and its therapeutic application to modern health problems.

Contains entries on all areas of biomedicine, the study of molecular bioscience relating to disease. Includes terms from the related areas of anatomy, genetics, molecular bioscience, pathology, pharmacology, and clinical medicine.