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This best-selling portable resource provides authoritative definitions for all of the medical acronyms and abbreviations you can expect to encounter in medicine today. The new, 5th Edition features 10,000 completely new entries reflecting the most recent developments in health care-including new clinical trials, new technologies, and new advances. Highlights include the latest virus nomenclature, computer technology, medical informatics, and molecular biology, along with more from the ever-expanding list of organizations and associations.
It also includes a CD-ROM that makes the content accessible via computer. What's more, a handheld software version is available on CD-ROM-sold separately, or in a money-saving package together with the book.

• Features a concise, pocket-sized format that is easy to carry, easy to consult, and easy to afford.
  
• Delivers all of the authority readers expect from the publisher of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary.

Customer Reviews (5)

I own it, I love it!! Could not code without it!!
This book has been a big help to me in my coding career. I use it almost everyday depending on how the doctors write their orders. I went without it for a few years and when I finally bought it I wondered what was I doing without it.

I recently purchased Medical Abbreviations ISBN 9780931431135 which has only 28,000 medical abbreviations because I thought I lost my Jablonski book. However, when I found the Jablonski medical abbreviations book in my desk drawer at work, I wish I could send the one with 28,000 medical abbreviations back because Jablonski has over 55,000 abbreviations. However, I am keeping them both and hoping that the one by Neil M. Davis will be useful somehow.

good all around reference
I researched many different books and choose this one.It is the most comprehensive acronym/abbreviation book that I have been able to find.I've been waiting for the latest version to be published and have not been dissapointed.It is all that I expected and is among the best.

Cutting It Short
I do not think that I will ever outgrow the need for Jablonski's book despite how medicine will evolve through the years. There will always be someone writing a medical term either as an acronym or abbreviation, and I will refer to Jablonski in order to understand what was written.

That's the positive side of this book. On the other side there are a couple of things that need to be mentioned. One is that for all of the definitions that Jablonski gives, there are still others that he left out. For example, take the acronym RAD. Jablonski gives about ten meanings, but "reactive attachment disorder" is not one of them.

The second is that Jablonski does not explain his definitions. If one does not understand that "reactive attachment disorder" refers to a malfunction in the bonding between a parent and a child, one will have to seek another source.

This book is great at explaining acronyms and abbreviations. But as far as what they mean, this book is cutting it short.

Comprehensive and up-to-date reference for MTs
This book just came out, so it's really up-to-date; the info is thorough and comprehensive, and I've only run across a couple of unusual abbreviations/acronyms that haven't been in here.Well worth the purchase price and invaluable to MTs and anyone dealing with medical documents!

Very Helpful
I use this book in my work every day and find the information well presented and easy to find. ... Read more

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Very helpful medical related student resource.
This is a very helpful resource for any medical related student.It is a very widely used medical book.It has helped me tremendously in my medical coding course.

Stedman's Medical Abbreviations Acronyms and Symbols
Very interesting book, I am going back to school to become a Medical Transcriber, and this is one of the books I needed to do my second semester.This book has been a very big help with the school work, and Amazon saved me money on it!!!!

Perfect!
This is exactly what I was looking for.It makes it so much easier to figure out what the docs are trying to say.Especially since they don't always use the correct abbreviations.Highly recommend.

Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols
Excellent reference for any medical transcriptionist!I've been doing transcription for many years and this book has been a wonderful addition to my reference books. The slang references outlined in red have been especially helpful, which were not available in an earlier edition.I agree with a previous reviewer in that getting updated versions is necessary.

Stedman Medical Abbrev
This is an excellent reference book.It was highly recommended.It was also received quickly and in excellent conditon.

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Medical acronyms and abbreviations offer convenience, but can often be confusing and difficult to decode. This handy, portable new 6th edition features thousands of new terms from across all medical specialties. Its alphabetical arrangement makes reference a snap, and expanded coverage of symbols makes more of them easier to find. The included CD-ROM provides electronic access featuring the entire content of the book, making it fully searchable for added usability.

• Includes a searchable CD-ROM for easy and quick reference.
  
• Contains more entries than any other portable reference, making it the most comprehensive resource of its kind.
  
• Uses a convenient, alphabetical format so you can find the entry you need more intuitively.

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Jablonski's Dictionary Med Acronyms & Abbrev.
This is a really handy reference for transcription and medical coding.Has a very comprehensive list of abbreviations and surgery names.Could't live without it!Has a CD ROM with it for the more computer literate, which I have not tried yet but should be a very handy resource. ... Read more

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The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms is a must for busy professionals and students involved in accounting or finance. This comprehensive reference book defines close to 2,000 acronyms. Examples and graphic illustrations are used throughout to clarify definitions. The Dictionary contains an appendix of sources of further information and is fully cross-referenced. ... Read more

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Expertly written for pharmaceutical company staff in research or marketing and their research and business collaborators, physicians, pharmacists, researchers, patients, and healthcare professionals, Handbook of Biopharma Industry Acronyms & Terms is the perfect quick reference guide for all terms and abbreviations used in the development and marketing of drugs in the USA and Europe. Set up in an easy to find, A-Z style, this book provides over 3,200 acronyms and over 850 terms and phrases representing the language in the biopharma industry. The author and editorial board have extensive experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry (collectively over 100 years at small start-up and major fully integrated companies). ... Read more

Amazon.com Review
For the TV viewer frustrated by all those arcane medical abbreviations like ER, MI, ALS, CBC, OR, EEG and EKG; the amateur sleuth who doesn't know an ADW from a CCW, or a 10-78 from 10-99; courtroom addicts who'd like to know what pleading NOLO really means; military-history buffs who can't tell a CINCPAC from a JSTAR; the novice computer owner who is venturing into the realm of NETSPEAK, CPUs and CD-ROMS; the simply curious who want to know the difference between a CAT SCAN and a CT SCAN, and what DEFIB and ATHEROSCLEROSIS mean; and everybody who's mystified by the endless stream of bureaucratic initializing that infests our world today. ... Read more

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Written for the professional and the layman, the book provides the meanings of important and interesting acronyms in the broad area of computing and information science and technology. The acronyms and abbreviations contained in this book were created by the men and women of the computer and information age to save time and space and eliminate unnecessary repetition and wordage. The book is of value to engineers, scientists, technologists, executives and managers in technical fields, programmers, systems analysts, writers, and computer owners or potential buyers. ... Read more

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Catalogues approximately 7000 acronyms and abbreviations used in computer technology, telecommunications and related fields. The entries are organized in tabular form to enable readers to locate any specific acronym easily. ... Read more

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This enlarged and expanded edition is designed to be a valuable resource for librarians and users of information sources, clarifying the bewidering number of new acronyms that appear every year in the information science field. Nearly 30,000 acronyms in 35 languages are listed. As libraries are to a large extent interdisciplinary, the dictionary covers language forms used in computers, publishing, printing, archive management, journalism and reprography, as well as in the library and information science fields Acronyms reproduced here represent institutions, library and information systems, programming languages and publication titles from around the world. ... Read more

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not the best book
this is not the best book, but it is also not the worst. i suggest you get it if you like books that are not the best and also not the worst. ... Read more

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If you think you know what AA stands for--read on! It could be Amino Acid or Arachidonic Acid, but this book also lists acupuncture analgesic, agranulocytic angina, alopecia areata, aplastic anemia, atomic absorption and axonal arborization. Similary, PM is fairly straightforward in a political or temporal context; but could you list any of the 14 commonly used biomedical phrases that have the same abbreviation? In a world of rapid information transfer, the use of acronyms and abbreviations is increasing at a dramatic rate, and keeping abreast of the additions is difficult. This dictionary has been substantially revised and expanded, and now includes 30% new information. The main subject areas covered in the book are: medicine, biology and biochemistry, including many chemical terms frequently used in these fields. To be sure, the Dictionary of Biomedical Acronyms and Abbreviations will be of great value as an aide-memoire to all those involved in biomedical literature. ... Read more

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This handy Dictionary of Nautical Acronyms and Abbreviations contains a listing of all the acronyms, abbreviations and truncations that recreational boaters encounter in nautical magazine articles, books, instruction manuals and Coast Guard reports. A reference such as this has never been published before. Part I, with 550 entries with 28 illustrations, is an alphabetical listing of abbreviations, along with an explanation of each. Part II, with 500 entries lists all the abbreviations used on the governments nautical charts. ... Read more