Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - Australian & New Zealand Edition,

Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions has been acclaimed by students and educators for its clarity, comprehensiveness and currency. Now in its second edition, a thorough revision of this definitive reference for the ANZ region enhances the classic Mosby dictionary features and sees in its over 2000 pages:

• precise and clear entries, plus encyclopaedic entries of significant terms; generous illustrations and apt use of tables
• a detailed colour atlas of anatomy enhances the comprehension of anatomical terms
• local spelling conventions and phonetic pronunciation guides
• fully revised etymologies

Online resources include a regional spellchecker, a printable colour atlas, all images from the text, and 18 valuable appendices, 9 of which appear in the main text.

Key Features

• - over 39,000 clear, precise entries, plus encyclopaedic entries of significant terms

• - over 2000 high quality images and the apt use of tables to demonstrate and clarify more than 30 medical and health specialties represented

• - a detailed colour atlas of anatomy, enhancing the comprehension of anatomical terms

• - local spelling conventions and phonetic pronunciation guides throughout

• - fully revised etymologies

• - comprehensive entries for numerous drugs

• - valuable appendices, including normal laboratory values for adults and children, units of measurement, nutrition guidelines, assessment guides, immunisation schedules, infection control and herb-drug interactions
  

• Evolve Resources Online Features:

• - free access to all online resources

• - regionalised spellchecker

• - printable colour atlas of human anatomy

• - image collection offers all images for online viewing

• - 5 comprehensive appendices

New Features

• over 300 new drug entries

• over 500 new images, including uniquely Australian sourced images for illustrating terms of particular local relevance

• a total of 73 new and updated tables to provide key reference information to supplement definitions

• revised to update and refine existing material and incorporate many new terms, tables and illustrations to ensure currency and relevance

• all appendices have been updated to include the latest information

• new terms include Swine influenza, Hendra disease, Nipah virus, Avian influenza, Multi-drug resistant TB and Vancomycin resistant enterococcus plus many, many more