Elsevier's Dictionary Of Medicine And Biology: In English, Greek, German, Italian, And Latin; Part 1, Basic Table

This book is more than a reference book. It is expensive but also one of its kind! Well organized, extensively covering all claimed scientific fields and has such a vast number of synonyms in each language (in English for example it presents over 22.000 cross-referenced synonyms) that could be also used as a scientific thesaurus. The incorporation of the Greek, Italian and Latin languages in this singe volume is without doubt a great accomplishment since all the previous languages are source languages of scientific terminology of the fields of life sciences. Although most scientific dictionaries lack grammatical information, this book presents a clear brief info that is very helpful for all those trying to compile scientific texts in a foreign language. Closing this review it would be a mistake to overlook that in its 2590 pages one can find the modern translation of almost any term -from- and -to- any language between English Greek German Italian and Latin. Recommendation is guaranteed since it is already trusted by major libraries worldwide: US National Library of Medicine US Library of Congress Harvard University Library Cambridge University Library Yale University Library Johns Hopkins University Library MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Library Oxford University Library Berkeley University of California Library Los Angeles University of California Library EMBL Heidelberg Germany Library German National Library of Medicine Chicago Public Library Central Library of Zurich McGill University Library Irvine University of California Library San Francisco University of California Library Santa Barbara University of California Library North Carolina State University Library University of Toronto Library University of Texas MD.Anderson Cancer Center Library Pennsylvania State University Library Kansas State University Library Davis University of California Library University of Cincinnati Library Indiana University Library Cornell University Library Columbia University of NY Library University of Saskatchewan Library University of Chicago Library University of Alberta Library University of Wisconsin-Madison Library University of Florida Library University of Connecticut Library University of Southern California Library University of Kentucky Library University of Muenster Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library University of North Texas Health Science Center Universite Laval Library Universitat Pompeu Fabra Library Universite de Montreal Library Georgia Institute of Technology Library Stadt-Universitatsbibliothek Bern Universitatsbibliothek Leipzig Universitatsbibliothek Basel Universitatsbibliothek Stuttgart Universitatsbibliothek Wien University of Sydney Library ETH-Bibliothek Zurich National University of Singapore Library Lithuanian National Library Chinese Peking University Library Japanese Osaka Medical College Library Japanese National Institute of Informatics Library Japanese AICHI University Library If I could recommend other dictionaries then those would be: (Elsevier's) Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary and (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins) Stedman's Medical dictionary. Dictionaries are didactic books used as consultation instruments for self-teaching. They are composed by an ordered set of linguistic units which reflects a double structure, the macrostructure which correspond to the word list and the microstructure that refers to the contents of each lemma. The great value of dictionaries nests in the fact that they establish a standard nomenclature and prevent in that way the appearance of new useless synonyms.
This dictionary contains a total of about 27.500 main English entries, and over of 130.000 translations that should normally sufficiently cover all fields of life sciences. The basic criteria used to accept a word a part of the dictionary during the development period in order of importance were usage, up-to-dateness, specificity, simplicity and conceptual relationships. The dictionary meets the standards of higher education and covers all main fields of life sciences by setting its primary focus on the vastly developing fields of cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, developmental biology, microbiology, genetics and also the fields of human anatomy, histology, pathology, physiology, zoology and botany.
The fields of ecology, paleontology, systematics, evolution, biostatistics, plant physiology, plant anatomy, plant histology, biometry and lab techniques have been sufficiently covered but in a more general manner. The latest Latin international anatomical terminology "Terminologia Anatomica" or "TA" has been fully incorporated and all anatomical entries have been given their international Latin TA synonym. This dictionary will be a valuable and helpful tool for all scientists, teachers, students and generally all those that work within the fields of life sciences. Dictionaries are didactic books used as consultation instruments for self-teaching. They are composed by an ordered set of linguistic units which reflects a double structure, the macrostructure which correspond to the word list and the microstructure that refers to the contents of each lemma. The great value of dictionaries nests in the fact that they establish a standard nomenclature and prevent in that way the appearance of new useless synonyms. This dictionary contains a total of about 27.500 main English entries, and over of 130.000 translations that should normally sufficiently cover all fields of life sciences. The basic criteria used to accept a word a part of the dictionary during the development period in order of importance were usage, up-to-dateness, specificity, simplicity and conceptual relationships. The dictionary meets the standards of higher education and covers all main fields of life sciences by setting its primary focus on the vastly developing fields of cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, developmental biology, microbiology, genetics and also the fields of human anatomy, histology, pathology, physiology, zoology and botany. The fields of ecology, paleontology, systematics, evolution, biostatistics, plant physiology, plant anatomy, plant histology, biometry and lab techniques have been sufficiently covered but in a more general manner. The latest Latin international anatomical terminology "Terminologia Anatomica" or "TA" has been fully incorporated and all anatomical entries have been given their international Latin TA synonym. This dictionary will be a valuable and helpful tool for all scientists, teachers, students and generally all those that work within the fields of life sciences Contains a total of about 27,500 main English entries, and over of 130,000 translations that cover various fields of life sciences. This dictionary focuses on the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, developmental biology, microbiology, genetics and also the fields of human anatomy, histology, and pathology.