American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Therapeutic cloning, apoptosis, photodynamic therapy - it isn't easy keeping up with today's fascinating world of medical technology. New treatments, new tests, and new insights into how the body maintains health or responds to disease have resulted in an unprecedented explosion in medical terminology. This new edition of The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary can help demystify the complex vocabulary of modern health care. Completely updated with more than 1,300 new entries, it covers every medical specialty along with important related areas such as alternative medicine, health care management, and insurance-related terms. Common medical abbreviations, biographical entries for leading figures in medicine, expanded coverage of prescription drugs, and ninety clearly labeled illustrations and tables make this the most comprehensive medical dictionary available today. Up-to-date, authoritative, and jargon-free - The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary is an invaluable resource for health care consumers, patients, students, and medical professionals.American Heritage Dictionary Editors is the author of 'American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary', published 2004 under ISBN 9780618428991 and ISBN 0618428992.