Comprehensive dictionary revised to include 8000 new terms reflecting expanding disciplines of the medical sciences. Also includes eponyms, biographical entries, anatomical entries, and chemical nomenclature, as well as all drugs listed inBritish pharmacopoeia and British pharmaceutical codex and other drugs approved or in common use. British spelling used; American spelling also indicated when first letter of a word involved, e.g., edema vs. oedema. Entry includes word or phrase, pronunciation, definition, word origin, and see also reference. 1st ed., 1961.