Product Description

takes account of the integration of alternative and complementary approaches into standard western medical care, defining terms relating to herbal remedies and traditional cures from other cultures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #499114 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2800 pages

Ingram
The most comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health professionals, Taber's contains 56,486 entries (over 2,600 new terms) and more than 200 two-color clinically precise illustrations. Easy to carry, this cutting-edge volume offers appendices which contain the information of a 25-volume series. Provides numerous updates and the Taber's Feature Finder, which shows readers how to identify and utilize the information.

Book Info
A. DAVIS. Harvard University, Boston, MA. Brandon/Hill Nursing List firstpurchase selection (also appears on Medical List). Classic, nursing-oriented dictionary for students and practitioners. Full color illustrations. Previous edition 1993. DNLM: Dictionaries, medical.

From the Publisher
The features you like best about Taber's--the most terms, its portability, and the comprehensive appendices--are now all available in an interactive Cd-ROM package. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary CD-ROM Multimedia gives you the excellence you have come to expect from Taber's.

Minimum system requirements for WIN: 386/33 or better; Windows 3.1 or later; 3 MB hard disk space; 8 MB of RAM; SVGA 256 color monitor; 2X CD- ROM; 8-bit audio (sound card required)

Minimum system requirements for MAC: 68030 processor (Power PC recommended); Mac OS 7.0 or later; 3 MB hard disk space; 8 MB of RAM; SVGA 256 color monitor; 2X CD-ROM; 8-bit audio (sound card required); QuickTime required for video playback

KEY FEATURES:

features available in the CD- ROM:
*Powerful search engine helps users find definitions of medical words and phrases or locate specific information within an entry quickly and easily
*Useful hypertext links within entries allow users to access other relevant entries and illustrations, vidoes, tables, or appendices with just a click of the mouse
*Bookmark feature allows users to customize the program by "marking" entries and appendices that they refer to frequently, making Taber's a personalized reference tool
*Copy-and paste function allows users to move information into other documents
*Zoom-and-pan viewing allows close-up inspection of all the high-quality images; also table headers can be locked to make scrolling through and searching in tables easier
*Audio pronunciations are given for many words and word elements
*Videos show clinically important procedures, concepts, and anatomical explorations

Customer Reviews

Indispensable for Professionals, Students, & Laypeople
This dictionary has enough information to be useful for even the most learned medical professional and is still simple enough to use to be accessible to any mildly educated member of society. The dictionary is much more than simply a dictionary. Consisting of the vocabulary section and then some appendices, this 2270-page godsend is chockfull of definitions, examples, full-color diagrams, charts, diagnoses, and more. The preface to the dictionary actually lists all of the features of this cyclopedic dictionary, so I will regurgitate it here:
1. Vocabulary
2. Easy-to-Use Entry Format
3. Alphabetization
4. Eponyms (including biographies of those after whom things were named)
5. Definitions
6. Pronunciations
7. Singular/Plural Forms
8. Etymologies
9. Abbreviations
10. Encyclopedic Entries
11. Illustrations
12. Tables
13. Adjective Forms of Words
14. Cautionary Statements
15. Synonyms (Very helpful!)
16. Cross-References
17. Appendices (Basically all the stuff that doesn't fit well within the dictionary, like medical terminology prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms as well as lots of various classification schemes)
18. Nursing Diagnoses Appendix

The book comes with a trial subscription to Taber's Online. This is my only complaint. Taber's Online does not appear to have received the thorough thought that the printed version did. I found that it was generally unhelpful, but you don't have to pay any extra for it, so I'm not complaining, just commenting. Overall, I would strongly recommend buying the Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.

Good but lacking some words.
I bought this dictionary because it was one of recommended texts for my medical transcription course.
PROS:
1. The version I have is thumb-indexed so it's very convenient.
2. It has a CD-ROM so you can install the dictionary into your computer, copy, cut and paste definitions, or just read them while you are typing your transcript.
3. After the word definition, it gives you the origins of the word. THis is very helpful since a foundation in medical terminology is essential for a medical transcriptionist.
4. The CD allows you to search medical phrases and will give you all the entries where the phrases may be found. Example: If you type in "column of Bertin", it will give you entries where "column" and "Bertin" appear. By clicking on the entries, you will find that this is not listed under C but under B: "Bertin, column of".
CONS:
1. The CD-ROM should be in your drive while you are using it on your PC desktop.
2. Dictionary sometimes doesn't pop up when you want it to while you are typing a document, even when the CD is inside the drive. Sometimes it asks you to go online. I haven't mastered exactly why it does this because at other times, it will immediately come up.
3. Biggest con: some words aren't there at all. Etoposide is an example. The seventh cranial nerve (facial) isn't listed under "facial nerve" or "seventh cranial nerve". This is funny because all the other cranial nerves are listed under 2 entries each: e.g., "first cranial nerve" lists the olfactory nerve and its definition and description; under "olfactory nerve" you will see it referred to as a cranial nerve. Cranial nerves I-XII are listed as such except for the seventh. Normocephalic is another term that doesn't appear, but is commonly heard on trancription. These are the words I can remember not being there because they are the ones that I looked up most recently to make sure I had the correct spelling (in the case of normocephalic, most new transcriptionists would transcribe it as normal cephalic; if the doctor eats his words while dictating, you wouldn't even know the difference). There have been others that I had to look up in other medical dictionaries or word books.
VERDICT: If you are a medical student or medical transcriptionist, you need other resources besides this book.

who needs a dictionary
THIS DICTIONARY WAS OKAY. I BOUGHT IT AS A MEDICAL STUDENT THINKING IT WOULD BE USEFUL, IT WAS NOT. I GUESS IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR PEOPLE OUT OF THE MEDICAL FIELD WHO WANT TO LOOK SOMETHING UP BUT WAS NOT USEFUL FOR ME.