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RR 2016/055 Oxford Concise Colour Medical Dictionary (6th edition) Edited by Elizabeth A. Martin Oxford University Press Oxford 2015 ix + 862 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 968799 2 £14.99
Oxford Quick Reference
Additional online resources freely available at: www.oxfordreference.com/page.med. This "Colour" edition based on the publisher's Concise Medical Dictionary (9th ed. 2015 ISBN 978 0 19 968781 7 £11.99); this version is also available online through Oxford Reference
Keywords Dictionaries, Health and medicine
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-10-2015-0240
This is another edition of the medical dictionaries in the Oxford Quick Reference series. It covers all aspects of medicine.
Human anatomy is covered with full-page illustrations of the vascular system and the skeleton. Various tissues and organs are illustrated with detailed pictures; for example, the eye has a diagram showing the external muscle and another giving the cross-section. Drug classes and some of the more commonly used specific drugs are discussed. Trade names are provided for some drugs. (Checking out this, I found that beta as in beta blocker is spelt out.)...