This dictionary aims to reflect the current state of the rapidly expanding vocabulary of medical science. It is a useful reference work for medical and nursing students, as well as health service professionals, whether medical, paramedical or administrative. The book covers all the basic medical sciences, as well as pharmacology, virology, psychiatry and dentistry. It also includes terminology relevant to nursing, radiography, orthoptics, laboratory and operating theatre technology, forensic and social medicine and public health administration. There are descriptions of a wide variety of diseases, syndromes and conditions, generic and proprietary names of a broad range of important drugs and illustrations of all the major body systems.