Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

4th edition. — London, Informa Healthcare, 2001. — 778 p.This is a fully updated, expanded new edition of the award-winning and most popular of all medical dictionaries for students, nurses, and allied healthcare workers. Now with over 3000 color coded illustrations, this fourth edition clearly and authoritatively defines nearly 30,000 medical terms in understandable everyday language. The book is printed in large, three-column format for optimal comprehension and memorization and contains numerous tables and charts that make lengthy and complex information substantially easier to understand and assimilate, including 60 pages of illustrated tables of arteries, bones, muscles, nerves and veins. The new edition adds ten full-page illustrations of ligaments accompanying the ligament definition and two pages of illustrations of bursas (in the shoulder, knee, elbow, hip and foot joints) accompanying the bursa definitions. It contains 4000 new entries, many with illustrations, of up-to-date information in such fast-moving fields as genetics, immunology, gynecology and radiology. The new edition also has an increased list of important medical abbreviations and the phonetic pronunciation follows every detailed entry. Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Fourth Edition, continues to be the single most useful and most referenced dictionary of its kind, bringing medical terminology to life with definitions that can be seen as well as read.