Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary - Softcover

Blood, D.C.; Studdert, Virginia P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702020346 ISBN 13: 9780702020346

Publisher: W B Saunders Co Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

"Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary" is the second edition of this superbly successful and highly regarded veterinary dictionary. It serves as an invaluable companion from the first day at veterinary school right through to being an essential reference for any veterinary practitioner. This dictionary offers a student friendly solution to the problem of acquiring a complete professional vocabulary - as with the first edition a major objective has been to include all the technical and scientific words students will encounter during their studies. It is also an essential purchase for any vet practice, who will want to have access to this excellent resource crammed as it is with up-to-the-minute information. Veterinary nurses, technicians, and other members of the practice team will also find it a quick and easy source of reference, whether to look up a definition of an unfamiliar term, or simply for checking spellings. The number of entries in the dictionary has increased from 55,000 to 65,000 and five further tables have been added to the Appendices of useful laboratory and clinical information. "Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary" in its new edition improves upon an excellent reputation and remains without question the most comprehensive reference of its type.

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Review

"...unquestionably one of the most useful, authoritative and most needed books to be published in the veterinary field for many years" -- -Australian Veterinary Journal-review of the first edition

"The dictionary is a pleasure to use, with adequate cross-referencing, sufficient multiple entries for compound terms, and good, concise definitions...It is hard to find any fault or error. This is a book which veterinarians have been waiting for, and will be in constant use." -- -British Veterinary Journal - review of the first edition

Edition details

• Publisher: W B Saunders Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702020346
• ISBN 13: 9780702020346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1380