MSDict Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary (Android)

An Oxford Medical Dictionary with over 10,000 terms used in modern medicine.

Hard over 340,000 copies sold

This dictionary provides full coverage of all important terms and concepts used in medicine today. Written by leading specialists practicing medical writers, it is intended primarily for workers in the paramedical fields: pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech therapists , social workers, hospital secretaries, administrators, technicians, etc.. It will also be valuable for medical students and practicing physicians. Each entry contains a basic definition, followed if necessary by a more detailed explanation or description. A feature of the dictionary is that the articles are written in a clear and concise English without the use of unnecessary technical jargon. For this reason, the book is also an interesting and useful to the reader who needs a home medical dictionary "Excellent layout and jargon-free style Nursing Times "An extraordinary bargain New Scientist

Coverage

The dictionary defines terms in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology, and 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 and the other medical surgical specialties. The principal terms of the specialty in developing advanced systems of life support have also been added as new entries. Entries for many new drugs have been added, and drug names have been revised in accordance with the EC Directive has recently implemented the use of recommended International Non-proprietary Names (Rinne), where they differ from names commonly used in Great Britain, the letter are included both as synonyms for the Rinne and writings, references

The MSDict Dictionary Format

The Concise Medical Dictionary is used by MSDict Viewer. MSDict offers best experience in mobile reference and is available for any handheld platform

• Quick dynamic search of words while you type
• Transcriptions facilitating pronunciation
• Hyperlinks between different related words
• History to see the last 50 words you looked up
• Support of multiple dictionaries installed at a time
• Support memory cards