Master today's medical vocabulary and become an informed health-care consumer with this guide to the essential language of medicine and health care.

This new edition provides up-to-date coverage of terminology from all major fields of medical practice and research.

• More than 39,000 medical terms with pronunciations
• Covers the latest brand names and generic equivalents of common drugs
• 1,000 new entries include antibiotic lock, chemo brain, diabesity, gastric banding, and sarcopenia and brand names such as Abilify, Chantix, and Enbrel

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