Houghton Mifflin Electronic Publishing - The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary edited by the Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

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The American Heritage^® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
by the Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

The American Heritage^® Stedman's Medical Dictionary is the essential reference work for everyone concerned with medicine and health today. It combines the professional and scientific expertise of Stedman's well-known medical publications with the clarity and accessibility of the renowned American Heritage^® dictionaries.

Key Features:

• More than 45,000 entries from all areas of medicine and health care
• Clear, precise definitions written in language nonspecialists can understand
• Biographical entries for important scientists and physicians
• Diagrams, charts, and drawings that enhance definitions

Technical Specs:

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American Heritage^® Stedman's Medical Dictionary, The	XML with XSL FILTER VERSION	13.2 MB	2 JPG files, 114 GIF files: 1.5 MB	DTD INDEX

Sample Entries:

a•mu•si•a (

-my

)Loss or impairment of the ability to produce or comprehend music or musical tones.

in•fra•or•bi•tal artery (

n'fr

-ôr'b

-tl) n. An artery with origin in the maxillary artery, with distribution to the upper canine and incisor teeth, the inferior rectus and inferior oblique muscles, the lower eyelid, lacrimal sac, and upper lip, and with anastomoses to the branches of the ophthalmic, facial, superor labial, transverse facial, and buccal arteries.