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This best-selling portable resource provides authoritative definitions for all of the medical acronyms and abbreviations you can expect to encounter in medicine today. The new, 5th Edition features 10,000 completely new entries reflecting the most recent developments in health careincluding new clinical trials, new technologies, and new advances. Highlights include the latest virus nomenclature, computer technology, medical informatics, and molecular biology, along with more from the ever-expanding list of organizations and associations.
It also includes a CD-ROM that makes the content accessible via computer. What's more, a handheld software version is available on CD-ROMsold separately, or in a money-saving package together with the book. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

good all around reference
I researched many different books and choose this one.It is the most comprehensive acronym/abbreviation book that I have been able to find.I've been waiting for the latest version to be published and have not been dissapointed.It is all that I expected and is among the best.

Cutting It Short
I do not think that I will ever outgrow the need for Jablonski's book despite how medicine will evolve through the years. There will always be someone writing a medical term either as an acronym or abbreviation, and I will refer to Jablonski in order to understand what was written.

That's the positive side of this book. On the other side there are a couple of things that need to be mentioned. One is that for all of the definitions that Jablonski gives, there are still others that he left out. For example, take the acronym RAD. Jablonski gives about ten meanings, but "reactive attachment disorder" is not one of them.

The second is that Jablonski does not explain his definitions. If one does not understand that "reactive attachment disorder" refers to a malfunction in the bonding between a parent and a child, one will have to seek another source.

This book is great at explaining acronyms and abbreviations. But as far as what they mean, this book is cutting it short.

Comprehensive and up-to-date reference for MTs
This book just came out, so it's really up-to-date; the info is thorough and comprehensive, and I've only run across a couple of unusual abbreviations/acronyms that haven't been in here.Well worth the purchase price and invaluable to MTs and anyone dealing with medical documents!

Very Helpful
I use this book in my work every day and find the information well presented and easy to find. ... Read more

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This handy guide identifies the most common meanings of thousands of abbreviations and other language shortcuts used in health care settings. It presents multiple meanings of different abbreviations and acronyms and includes concise useful descriptions of each entry. ... Read more

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Newly updated, The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition, presents some 20,000 terms that appear in text messages, chatrooms, Web sites, sports statistics, travel brochures, airports, personal ads, and countless other places in a world where shorthand is the true universal language. ... Read more

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This dictionary is a collection of acronyms, abbreviations, symbolic names, identifiers, and initials being used throughout IT- and engineering-related activities. They are used in industries, institutes, organizations and universities, all too often without their meanings being defined. Areas covered by this dictionary include: Information Technology; Electronics; Electrical Engineering; Telecommunications; Information Networks, including the Internet and World Wide Web; Computer-Aided Applications; Administration and Accounting; Manufacturing; Logistics and Planning; Automatic Control; and other related subjects. As well as technical terms, the dictionary lists abbreviated names of organizations, conferences, symposia and workshops. With over 32,000 items listed, the Dictionary of Acronyms and Technical Abbreviations is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind. ... Read more

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Brand new 4th edition! Over28,000 copies of the previous edition were sold!

Medical professionals communicate using words and phrases unique to the medical profession. These words and phrases are frequently modified into acronyms and abbreviations. In other cases, illnesses and procedures are named for their discoverers...these are known as eponyms.

This abbreviated form of the terminology allows medical professionals to communicate more quickly and precisely. However, the use of acronyms and abbreviations also introduces the possibility of errors due to misunderstanding.

Medical Acronyms, Eponyms and Abbreviations provides a comprenhensive listing of the most common acronyms, eponyms and abbreviations used in the medical profession, along with clear and concise definitions. This book is an invaluable tool for everyone involved in learning, reading, writing or interpreting medical terminology.

From antibiotic-associated-colitis (AAC) to zoster immune plasma (ZIP), this handy pocket guide helps you translate those tricky acronyms and abbreviations. Hundreds of new medical acronyms, abbreviations and eponyms with the complete terms that they represent have been added to the completely revised fourth edition.

The book covers all medical specialties plus the areas of nursing, administration, quality assurance, diatetics, pharmacy and lab. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Very, very helpful.
As a student of Medical Transcription and Physician's coding I found this book of great help. It is a great "when in doubt" saver. I recommend it!

Useful!
Great book for anyone in the clinical field...to quickly look up indecipherable abbreviations. Covers almost all standard short forms.

Useful handbook.
This handy compendium contains over 1,500 acronyms, e.g., AIDS, SIDS, GOMER "Get Out of My Emergency Room" (not really, just kidding), eponyms such as Lyme disease and Reye syndrome, and multiple meanings for such abbreviations as "MH", which can mean malignant hyperthermia, marital history, medical history, melanophore hormone, menstrual history, mental health, or municipal hospital!
Delong's work will prove useful for medical students, nurses and other healthcare professionals, medical transcribers, fiction writers, and others who want a peek into the arcane world of medical jargon.

(The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of the page.This reviewer does not "score" books.) ... Read more

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This second edition of the comprehensive dictionary has been expanded and enhanced to over 65,000 terms (more than twice than in the first edition) for all the major engineering fields. Arranged in a clear, practical format, it is a convenient research tool that is invaluable to engineers, researchers, scientists, technicians, students, technical writers, and others using engineering literature. A unique new section lists abbreviations and acronyms used for journals and magazines in science and engineering. ... Read more

Book Description
Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols, Fourth Edition offers quick, easy access to over 75,000 essential abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols for medical language specialists and medical, health, and nursing professionals. This thoroughly updated edition includes more than 7,500 new abbreviations, expansions, acronyms, and symbols and 14 appendices. "Do Not Use" abbreviations indicated by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices are highlighted, as are slang abbreviations. This Fourth Edition is also available as a CD-ROM or a downloadable file. See CD-ROMs listing for details. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Another Stedman must have!
If you are in the medical transcription field, you must have this book! Docs are always abbreviating things, and sometimes it can be hard to distinguish what they mean - especially for the newbie MT. It's nice to have a reference book to be able to look up the abbreviations and see if what you think it sounds like makes sense as to how it is related in the text. This was one of the first books I bought as a new MT 2 years ago, and I just purchased another one for my friend who is studying to be one. She does her practice typing and hears the doc say "Positive BS." What is that??? (Well, aside from the fact we cannot type BS) You look in the book, and there you have it - bowel sounds! :) He dictated "ABDOMEN" and you now know this does go there. This is quite a basic example, but I'm telling you this book is a lifesaver!

Major asset to my business.
I have a medical transcription service out of my home, and I could not do my job without this book.Everyone abbreviates these days.A necessity.

Great reference book
I have been a medical transcriptionist for more than 40 years - have taught this class in college - and was a hospital supervisor for many years.

I just ordered this newest edition and am sure that I will refer to it often as I have the older editions in the past.It is a wonderful reference book and a very important one in today's world ---with more and more abbreviations constantly being used.

*** Thought I would mention -- that mmHg is a very acceptable term - in fact, it is the preferred way to type (millimeters Mercury).I can say that the Medical Record's Departments of all four of the hospitals I have worked at (or have been the transcription supervisor at)would correct us --if we didn't write it this way.This can readily be realized by reading a few medical journals......

Again - this is a wonderful book - but remember to keep getting updated versions - as more and more abbreviations and acronyms are constantly being used.

C.J.Snow

Stedman's word books necessary for transcription
In reading the other review here, I get the feeling the reviewer isn't using this book correctly.The stated purpose and intent of each of the Stedman's word books is, quoting the publisher's preface, "to the wordsmiths of the healthcare professions---medical transcriptionists, medical editors and copy editors," etc.In doing medical transcription, I have *never* had to abbreviate "mercury," as transcription must be clear as possible.Mercury should always be spelled out.Even a common medical term like KCl (which *is* found in this book under K) must be spelled out as "potassium chloride."That is the unsurpassed value of the Stedman's word books.

This is one of their books that I use quite frequently.When listening to dictation, acronyms are often used and are sometimes required to be spelled out even when dictated as an acronym.This book is loaded with hundreds of pages of acronyms and their meanings.Also, if a doctor's "F" sounds like "S" or "B" sounds like "V," this book is extremely helpful in eliminating possible acronyms to find the correct one, because it lists not just the letters ("SUV" for standard uptake value, for example, and no entry for "FUV") but the meaning also.

This book may not be much use for students in medical school, I don't know; but it beautifully meets its stated intent, and that is for MTs, etc., as stated above.Just as a telephone directory may be no use in giving demographics of any given neighborhood, that is not its purpose; giving chemical symbols for the various elements is not the purpose of a book of acronyms to be used in transcription and medical copywriting/editing/proofreading etc.

Abbreviations you MUST know beforehand!
If you already know the abbreviation you need, this book is ok. If you need to know an abbreviation you are NOT going to like this book.For instance, need to know how to abbreviation mercury?If you don't know it starts with H...good luck.No index in the back listing mercury...page etc etc.Would have been nice. ... Read more

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Containing approximately 2,000 everyday shortened words used in American English, this unique collection defines the acronym or abbreviation and explains its context.

Amazon.com
For the TV viewer frustrated by all those arcane medicalabbreviations like ER, MI, ALS, CBC, OR, EEG and EKG; the amateur sleuthwho doesn't know an ADW from a CCW, or a 10-78 from 10-99; courtroomaddicts who'd like to know what pleading NOLO really means;military-history buffs who can't tell a CINCPAC from a JSTAR; the novicecomputer owner who is venturing into the realm of NETSPEAK, CPUs andCD-ROMS; the simply curious who want to know the difference between a CATSCAN and a CT SCAN, and what DEFIB and ATHEROSCLEROSIS mean; andeverybody who's mystified by the endless stream of bureaucraticinitializing that infests our world today. ... Read more

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Practical, authoritative, and fun, The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary presents 20,000 terms for understanding business correspondence, deciphering personal ads, navigating the Internet, or composing text messages. With entries ranging from TAS (time addressable storage) to POS (parent over shoulder), this handy volume is a must-have reference. ... Read more

Book Description
Dictionary of Internetworking Terms and Acronyms is a comprehensive reference to thousands of technical terms that networking students and professionals refer to on a daily basis. The book is organized in dictionary fashion, with alphabetized entries and concise, to-the-point definitions. This paperback book will feature a trim size smaller than usual for Cisco Press titles, enabling it to be a portable reference for students and professionals.Dictionary of Internetworking Terms and Acronyms will solve terminology problems affecting any individuals within the internetworking industry. As presented by the experts at Cisco Systems, this book is an expert reference to terms and definitions used throughout the industry. Readers will find its simple organization, concise definitions, and portability easy to use and invaluable in day-to-day business. Students will gain a most important reference and study tool, and can be certain of accuracy and quality with Cisco Systems as the author. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Quite good, but a few typos here and there
This book would turn out to be a great book without the TYPOS... It has extensive coverage on ATM, Frame Relay and other telecommunication-only terms... Many "NEW" Terms and Acronyms are included for example 3G Mobile stuff... which isnt much of a surprise since it was first published in January 2001...
My advice? wait for the Second Edition.

For your mom, maybe!
This book has failed to define anything useful for me. It has very few terms for the number of pages, and the two sentence long definitions seem to be written for people outside of the computer industry. Not helpful at all.

Needs more information to really be usefull.
This book is a handy reference manual to have around. With over 400 pages of terms, the information is a surface type of format, only giving the basic amount necessary.

From A to Z there are terms like ANSI, CDR, ELAN, ISDN, MUX, NAM, POTS, SMB, UDP and XID. Also there is a section strictly devoted to Cisco terms from CID, CNSI, EIRGP, FSIP, ISL, SDLC, TRIP and IRGP are but as few of the terms.

There could be a whole lot more added to this book including pictures of some things, a cd rom with an e-version of the book. Overall the value may not be worth the price. ... Read more

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Medical acronyms and abbreviations offer convenience, but can often be confusing and difficult to decode. This handy, portable new 6th edition features thousands of new terms from across all medical specialties. Its alphabetical arrangement makes reference a snap, and expanded coverage of symbols makes more of them easier to find. The included CD-ROM provides electronic access featuring the entire content of the book, making it fully searchable for added usability. ... Read more

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This handy Dictionary of Nautical Acronyms and Abbreviations contains a listing of all the acronyms, abbreviations and truncations that recreational boaters encounter in nautical magazine articles, books, instruction manuals and Coast Guard reports. A reference such as this has never been published before. Part I, with 550 entries with 28 illustrations, is an alphabetical listing of abbreviations, along with an explanation of each. Part II, with 500 entries lists all the abbreviations used on the governments nautical charts. ... Read more