Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary - Hardcover

Blood OBE BVSc MVSc Hon LLD Hon DVSc HonAssocRCVS FACVSc, Douglas C.; Studdert BSc DVM Hon DVSc, Virginia P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0702024422 ISBN 13: 9780702024429

Publisher: W B Saunders Co 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 veterinarians10,000 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

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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 - from a 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 - from a review of the first edition

Synopsis

This second edition includes 13,000 new entries. 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 a 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.

Edition details

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