2788 pages
Purchase Details
Hardcover, 0-8036-1207-9
Publication date: 2005
Nurses and health-care professionals depend on Taber's daily. Patients and family members looking to better understand diseases and health-care terminology find it indispensable too.
Why choose Taber's over other health science dictionaries?
• 700 illustrations; more than 500 in full-color
• Cyclopedic format means you get much more than just definitions. You get a comprehensive resource with:
• Superior illustrations
• Pronunciations
• Abbreviations
• Etymologies (word origins)
• 100 most frequently prescribed drugs (NEW)
• Patient Care sections with clinically pertinent information
• Caution statements that help you practice safe health care
• Tables that put important information at your fingertips
• Disease entries that include symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
What makes the 20th edition of Taber's better than ever?
• Easier to understand definitions
• Improved placement of multi-word entries
• More than 8,400 new and revised terms!
• Almost 30,000 pronunciations
• Now with nearly 600 Patient Care sections
• Nearly 350 more caution statements
• More than 70 extensively-revised appendices and sub-appendices explain the roles of the Health Professions team members, Recommended Immunization Schedules, and more
• Expanded coverage of alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine
• More colorful interior design
Invest in Taber's - use it now and depend on it throughout your career!
