This completely revised and updated edition provides a reference for medical and nursing students, health service professionals, and those others requiring a guide to modern medical terminology. It includes: 10,000 entries on theory and practice, as well as pharmacology, virology, psychiatry and dentistry; terminology relevant to nursing, radiography, orthoptics, laboratory and operating theatre technology, forensic and social medicine, and public health administration; descriptions of a wide variety of diseases, syndromes and conditions; generic and proprietary names of a broad range of important drugs; and illustrations of all the major body systems.