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Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary - Hardcover

Douglas C. Blood; Virginia P. Studdert; John Grandage

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Synopsis

This superb Second Edition of the indispensable veterinary dictionary includes 13,000 new entries bringing it right up to date with veterinary medicine today. For veterinary students it provides a complete professional vocabulary including all the technical and scientific words they will encounter from the first day of their course onwards. In the veterinary practice, it serves as an invaluable companion and ready source of reference for practitioners, veterinary nurses and technicians, and other members of the practice team. Five further tables have been added to the Appendices of useful laboratory and clinical information.

  • The most comprehensive veterinary dictionary available
  • Covers all aspects of veterinary science including clinical practice, anatomy, physiology, pathology and therapeutics
  • Covers all large and small animal medicine including exotics
  • Extensive appendices on clinical and laboratory data, and over 90 pages of anatomical information
  • Specialist entries compiled by 18 expert consultants
  • Written by veterinarians for veterinarians
  • 10,000 new entries
  • Includes American English spelling as well as UK English
  • Expanded coverage in the fields of molecular biology, genetics, immunology, histology, embryology, fish health, ultrasound imaging, acupuncture, endoscopy and mycology
  • Five new tables:
  • Eruption of teeth in domestic animals
  • Collective nouns and gender groups
  • Conversion table of weight to body surface area for dogs
  • Important venomous snakes
  • Major finfish, molluscs and crustaceans used in aquaria for consumption and in sport
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    Book Description

    A complete professional vocabulary

    About the Author

    Douglas C. Blood, OBE, BVSc, FACVSc, HonLD, (Sask), HonARCVS, HonDVSc, HonLLD (Guelph), Emeritus Professor, School of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne, Australia; Virginia P. Studdert, BS, DVM, HonDVSc, Emeritus Professor, School of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and Clive C. Gay, DVM, MVSc, FACVSc, Professor, Agricultural Animal Medicine/Director, Field Disease Investigation Unit, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

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