The sixth edition of this dictionary provides full coverage of all the important terms and concepts used in medicine today. Written by distinguished practicing specialists and medical writers, it is intended primarily for workers in the paramedical fields: pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, social workers, hospital secretaries, administrators, technicians, and so on. It will also be invaluable for medical students and practicing doctors. Each entry contains a basic definition, followed- where appropriate- by a more detailed explanation or description. A feature of the dictionary is that the articles are written in clear and concise English without the use of unnecessary technical jargon. For this reason the book will also be of both interest and value to the general reader who needs a home medical dictionary.
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Coverage
The dictionary defines terms in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, as well as in all major medical and surgical specialties. Its coverage of psychology and psychiatry, public health medicine and dentistry is unusually comprehensive, and this edition includes many new entries covering the latest developments in diagnostic radiology and radiotherapy, endocrinology, pediatrics, and urology, as well as the other medical surgical specialties. Key terms in the developing speciality of advanced life support systems have also been added as new entries. Entries for many new drugs have been included, and drug names have been revised in accordance with the recently implemented EC directive on the use of recommended International Non-Proprietary Names (rINNs); where these differ from names commonly used in Britain, the letter are included both as synonyms for the rINNs and as cross-reference entries.
The Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary is utilized by the MSDict Viewer dictionary reader. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference - quick-access layout, convenience of use and reliance.
* Hyperlinks between different related articles
* Text font remapping (dynamic changing of font sizes)
* Opportunity to add custom notes to any article in the dictionary so you can save your ideas and examples of usage
* Built-in keyboard
* Single-tap search, starting on first letter
* Wildcard filtration feature(the use of "*" replaces arbitrary number of symbols within words)
* Opportunity to add custom notes to any article in the dictionary
* Specially enhanced for hi-resolution devices and hi-resolution landscape view mode
* Button allowing quick erase of the query field
* Dynamic word history list for each session
MSDict 7 Released with New Learning Features
MSDict Viewer 7 comes with an additional learning application MSDict Wordbook specially designed to facilitate the language learning process.
* Create your own word lists
* Easily memorize selected words
* Check your progress in learning the words is selected lists
Updated Description:
v7.70 (07/19/06):
- Optimized to support the new Cambridge Dictionary of American English
v7.60 (05/31/06):
- Optimized to support the new Oxford Bible, Oxford Thesaurus and Concise Italian and Oxford Portuguese dictionaries
v7.30(02/14/06):
- Optimized to support the new PONS bilingual dictionaries
