Taber's® Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Taber’s brings meanings to life.

The all-in-one, go-to source for classroom, clinical, and beyond.

Put the language of nursing, medicine, and the healthcare professions at your fingertips—anywhere and everywhere, Taber’s 25 is the all-in-one, go-to source in the classroom, clinical, and beyond.

Under the editorial direction of Donald Venes, MD, MSJ, a team of expert consulting editors and consultants representing nearly every health care profession ensures that the content reflects today’s most current and relevant information.

Key Features

• • 75,000+ terms—Put the language of health care at your fingertips in class, clinical, and practice.
• • Full-color illustrations—Make often complex concepts easier to understand with detailed illustrations of anatomy and physiology, and photographs of diseases and disorders that focus on their distinguishing features.
• • Tools for clinical success—Integrate must-have information when you need it.
        o Patient Care Statements—Quick-reference summaries detail assessment, treatment, and patient teaching requirements.
        o Caution/Safety Statements—An easy-to-find icon highlights information critical to safe patient care.
        o Disease/Disorder Entries—Concise descriptions summarize diagnosis, signs and symptoms, etiology, treatments, and prognosis.
• • Appendices—Must-know, rarely memorized information at your fingertips, including normal reference laboratory values and prefixes, suffices, and combining forms, as well as abbreviations, symbols, and units of measurement, documentation system definitions, and translations of common healthcare terms and phrases in English, French, and Spanish.