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For the medical language specialist working in any aspect of medical documentation, this new edition provides a complete guide to quick verification of spelling and meanings of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols used in all specialties. Over 75,000 Entries.
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This dictionary-style reference lists over 75,000 medical abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols likely to be encountered by health care professionals, medical transcriptionists, and insurance workers. The third edition has been revised to remove dubious terms and gratuitous abbreviations, to highlight slang, and to include four new appendices covering professional titles and degrees, associations and organizations, chemotherapy and other drug regimens, and clinical trials. The entries are cross-referenced, including variant forms. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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