Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary - Hardcover

Dox, Ida G.; Melloni, B. John; Eisner, Gilbert M.; Melloni, June L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185070094X ISBN 13: 9781850700944

Publisher: CRC Press, 2001

Synopsis

Now with over 3000 color coded illustrations, Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Fourth Edition remains the reference against which all others are measured. It clearly and authoritatively defines nearly 30,000 medical terms in understandable everyday language. Long recognized for its excellence and expertise, its unique integration of illustrations and definitions brings the world of medicine alive.

About this title

About the Author:

Ida Dox, PhD, listed in Marquis Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, is the senior author of several reference books in the medical sciences, including Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Parthenon Publishing) and Attorney's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (West Group), and is a co-author of the award-winning book Illustrated Review of Human Anatomy (J.B. Lippincott) and Melloni's Illustrated Student Atlas of Human Anatomy (Parthenon Publishing). Her many consulting services in medical communication and human anatomy have included working for the U.S. House of Representatives on the medical panel of the Select Committee on Assassinations, investigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. She testified with the medical panel before the congressional hearing about her involvement in the investigation. Her detailed study of the anatomical evidence and resulting illustrations are housed in the National Archives. Dr Dox was employed at Georgetown University School of Medicine and her scientific articles appear in professional journals. She resides near the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, where she consults their voluminous medical literature and resources.

B. John Melloni, PhD, is the author and co-author of several books, including Anatomy and Physiology (four volumes, McGraw-Hill); Databases: A Primer for Retrieving Information by Computer (Prentice-Hall); Melloni's Illustrated Review of Human Anatomy (J.B. Lippincott) recipient of the Award of Excellence from the AMI; Melloni's Illustrated Student Atlas of Human Anatomy (Parthenon Publishing); Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of Medical Abbreviations (Parthenon Publishing); Attorney's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (West Group), and Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of the Musculoskeletal System (Parthenon Publishing), selected by Doody's Rating Service as one of the 250 Best Health Sciences Books of 1999. Over the years, Dr Melloni has served as a professorial lecturer in human anatomy at Georgetown University School of Medicine and was founder and chairman of the School's Department of Medical-Dental Communication. He was director of medical visual information for the American Family Physician (AFP), published by the American Academy of Family Physicians and was Editor-in-Chief of Visual Medicine, Journal of Visual Communication in the Medical and Dental Sciences. In private consulting, he was initial reviewer of grant proposals for the U.S. Department of Public Health and has served the AMA, VA, Human Research Resources Organization (HUMRRO), pharmaceutical companies (Abbott Laboratories, Chas. Pfizer, and Glaxo SmithKline), and publishers (W.B. Saunders Company, Williams & Wilkins, and HarperCollins). He has held offices in national professional organizations and received a number of awards for his contribution to illustrated books in medicine. Now retired from the National Institutes of Health, where he served as Special Expert in Biomedical Communication, he continues in his post as co-director of the Archives of Medical Visual Resources of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The authors are world famous medical lexicographers and medical illustrators. They authored, among other medical dictionaries, the four editions of Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary.

Review:

"Few illustrated medical dictionaries achieve the stature of this book. It is not simply a medical dictionary but a trove of more than 3,000 remarkable illustrations. Nearly all are the extraordinary line drawings that have become the hallmark of the Melloni dictionariesThis book will be a valuable resource for students in the health sciences, and for undergraduates, readers in public libraries, and high school students." - L.M. McMain, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA in CHOICE, July 2002 "This is a one-of-a-kind dictionary. The unique quality of the dictionary is the inclusion of nice illustrations. I love this dictionary!" - LouAnn Schraffenberger, RHIA, CCS, SSC-P, University of Illinois, Chicago School of Biomed and Health Info Management, for Doody's Notes

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 185070094X
• ISBN 13: 9781850700944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 778