by Laurence Urdang · Bantam Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553587364
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«Bantam Medical Dictionary» is Laurence Urdang's medical dictionary, fifth edition published by Bantam Books in paperback (736 pages, in English).
Reference work defining more than 11,000 medical and surgical terms with explanations for the non-specialist public. Includes more than 150 labelled illustrations, cross-references and updated entries on genetics, drugs, cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, SARS or West Nile fever.
Expanded and updated edition, published in October 2004; the first Bantam edition appeared in 1982.
Reference work suitable for students and health professionals, and also for anyone needing to consult medical terminology in English.
Laurence Urdang was a lexicographer, editor and author noted for first computerising the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1966. The dataset for the dictionary contained a 25,000,000-word corpus.
