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This educational and professional resource in the health sciences, includes definitions covering areas of nursing, medicine and allied health. It presents detailed definitions and pronunciations for selected entries. Observations, interventions and nursing considerations for major disease definitions are included, as well as a colour atlas of human anatomy. Most entries include etymologies to assist the reader in learning and understanding medical terminology. Thumb indexes should help readers locate entries quickly and easily. Colour illustrations are used to supplement and enhance definitions. This edition contains over 6000 new definitions and 2000 new illustrations, which illustrate anatomy, equipment, skin and eye conditions, cytology and tissue pathology.