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RR 2012/081 Spanish-English-Spanish Medical Dictionary - Diccionario Médico Espa?ol-Inglés-Espa?ol (4th edition) Onyria Herrera McElroy and Lola L. Grabb Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Philadelphia PA and London 2012 ISBN 978 1 60831 129 3 Ixx + 766 pp. £26.50/$41.95
Keywords Dictionaries, Health and medicine, language
DOI 10.1108/09504121211205269
The growing number of Spanish medical emanating from the USA is clear that the Hispanic community now forms largest immigrant group in that country with estimated 45 million native Spanish speakers. volume is the latest edition of a work first in 1992 and now contains concise for almost 23,000 medical terms and in English and Spanish. The of a new edition has enabled the to update existing terminology in the editions and incorporate new terms from this continually developing field.
The volume is clearly intended to take its place the handy reference works used by a range of care professionals from the hospital to the junior nurse, in fact by anyone to communicate with Spanish-speakers...