Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary DVD Version

Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary PC DVD-ROM research health medicine + Type: Application Platform: Windows Publisher: Merriam-Webster Released: 2003 Media: DVD Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary DVD-ROMAt first glance, one may wonder why yet another medical dictionary is needed when there are such classics as Black's Medical Dictionary, Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary, and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Merriam Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, an update of the 1986 edition published as Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, is written for laypeople. Its format and size remain unchanged. According to the publisher, there are more than 5,000 new words, and 6,000 definitions have been revised. Definitions for such terms as AIDS have been extensively revised to reflect the Center for Disease Control's new criteria. As in the previous one, some 1,000 biographies of individuals whose names are an integral part of the medical literature are included.The publisher claims