Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions: Illustrated (Book with CD-ROM)

Rating:
Summary: Great book.
Review: It's all you'll every need. Trust me.

Rating:
Summary: Great book.
Review: It's all you'll every need. Trust me.

Rating:
Summary: Superb work of reference
Review: This concise medical dictionary is not concise at all: it gives all the information one needs, accompanied by very clear and informative drawings and pictures and it even gives the reader the correct pronunciation of the word. The alphabet tags on the side of the book (they give the first two letters of the words on that page rather than only the first letter) are a major help for a quick reference.

I am "only" a biomedical scientist and not an M.D., but this book is very important in my daily work to understand all those sometimes hopelessly complicated medical terms that I encounter in articles and correspondence. I can imagine that this book can also be very useful for M.D.s en medical students to look up the terms they do not encounter every day.