Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - Australian & New Zealand Edition - E-Book

Download or read book Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - Australian & New Zealand Edition - E-Book written by Peter Harris and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 7114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions has been acclaimed by students and educators for its clarity, comprehensiveness and currency. Now in its second edition, a thorough revision of this definitive reference for the ANZ region enhances the classic Mosby dictionary features and sees in its over 2000 pages: - precise and clear entries, plus encyclopaedic entries of significant terms; generous illustrations and apt use of tables - a detailed colour atlas of anatomy enhances the comprehension of anatomical terms - local spelling conventions and phonetic pronunciation guides - fully revised etymologies Online resources include a regional spellchecker, a printable colour atlas, all images from the text, and 18 valuable appendices, 9 of which appear in the main text. - encyclopaedic definitions - comprehensive entries for numerous fully updated drugs - over 2400 high quality full-colour illustrations and photographs to enhance and clarify definitions of terms - regionalised spellchecker - over 300 new drug entries - over 500 new images, including uniquely Australian sourced images for illustrating terms of particular local relevance - a total of 73 new and updated tables to provide key reference information to supplement definitions - revised to update and refine existing material and incorporate many new terms, tables and illustrations to ensure currency and relevance - all appendices have been updated to include the latest information - new terms include Swine influenza, Hendra disease, Nipah virus, Avian influenza, Multi-drug resistant TB and Vancomycin resistant enterococcus plus many, many more