Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
Editor/Author: Editor: Jablonski, StanleyPublication Year: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 978-1-4160-5899-1
Category: medicine
Image Count: 101
Book Status: Available
Presents accurate definitions for the medical acronyms and abbreviations that are used today.
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This sixth edition updates the 2005 one, and is the first to be published without the oversight of the original creator, the late Stanley Jablonski. The staff of Dorland's dictionaries (e.g., Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 31st ed., CH, Oct'07, 45-0004) are now maintaining this dictionary. As with previous editions, the book is pocket-size: about five by seven inches. Seven pages of symbols and their meanings precede the 525 pages of text. This volume is more comprehensive than Marilyn Delong's Medical Acronyms, Eponyms and Abbreviations (4th ed., 2002) and is continually updated and reviewed. Each entry is followed by an alphabetically arranged series of common and obscure phrases for which the acronym or abbreviation stands. The CD that comes with the book is problematic. It works only with PCs, and one must have administrative rights to a computer in order to load it. Although the CD does allow one to search by phrases, it is not flexible. "Coronary artery bypass graft" turned up the acronym CARB. CABG, in the print edition, stands for "Coronary artery bypass graftING." If an abbreviation has a slash in it, such as "mRNA/R," one is instructed to "enter valid (Alpha-numeric) text only." The book is useful, but the accompanying CD is not.
K. Bradley
Bellevue Community College
