Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0702024422 ISBN 13: 9780702024429

Publisher: Saunders Ltd., 1998

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

About this title

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunders Ltd.
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702024422
• ISBN 13: 9780702024429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1380