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.

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.

When Jesus said, “Suffer the children,” faith healing is not what he had in mind

Collects more than 1,400 English-language proverbs that arose in the 20th and 21st centuries, organized alphabetically by key words and including information on date of origin, history and meaning.

"An A-to-Z reference guide to over 5,000 medical terms including symptoms, diseases, drugs and treatments"--Jacket subtitle.