Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary
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Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary by Dorland
Continuously in print for more than 120 years, Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary, 30th Edition, includes the most often-used terminology from Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, the world's most trusted medical dictionary. Concise terms, carefully selected illustrations, and a convenient, portable size make this the #1 choice of a wide variety of students and professionals. More than 36,000 entries, a 32-page set of high-quality anatomical plates, and 257 full-color illustrations keep you fully informed and put dependable medical information at your fingertips. Includes nearly 2,000 new and revised entries, 30 new illustrations, and an expanded section on combining word forms in medical terminology. Features a portable, sturdy paperback format that fits easily into a backpack, ready to carry to the lab, the classroom, or the office. Includes one year of free access to DorlandsOnline.com, which contains the complete content of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary - approximately 124,000 detailed entries. Widely used by medical students and allied health professionals in many fields.Frank H. Netter was born in New York City in 1906. He studied art at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design before entering medical school at New York University, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1931. During his student years, Dr. Netter's notebook sketches attracted the attention of the medical faculty and other physicians, allowing him to augment his income by illustrating articles and textbooks. He continued illustrating as a sideline after establishing a surgical practice in 1933, but he ultimately opted to give up his practice in favor of a full-time commitment to art. After service in the United States Army during World War II, Dr. Netter began his long collaboration with the CIBA Pharmaceutical Company (now Novartis Pharmaceuticals). This 45-year partnership resulted in the production of the extraordinary collection of medical art so familiar to physicians and other medical professionals worldwide. Icon Learning Systems acquired the Netter Collection in July 2000 and continued to update Dr. Netter's original paintings and to add newly commissioned paintings by artists trained in the style of Dr. Netter. In 2005, Elsevier Inc. purchased the Netter Collection and all publications from Icon Learning Systems. There are now over 50 publications featuring the art of Dr. Netter available through Elsevier Inc.
Dr. Netter's works are among the finest examples of the use of illustration in the teaching of medical concepts. The 13-book Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, which includes the greater part of the more than 20,000 paintings created by Dr. Netter, became and remains one of the most famous medical works ever published. The Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, first published in 1989, presents the anatomic paintings from the Netter Collection. Now translated into 16 languages, it is the anatomy atlas of choice among medical and health professions students the world over.
The Netter illustrations are appreciated not only for their aesthetic qualities, but, more importantly, for their intellectual content. As Dr. Netter wrote in 1949 clarification of a subject is the aim and goal of illustration. No matter how beautifully painted, how delicately and subtly rendered a subject may be, it is of little value as a medical illustration if it does not serve to make clear some medical point. Dr. Netter's planning, conception, point of view, and approach are what inform his paintings and what make them so intellectually valuable.
Frank H. Netter, MD, physician and artist, died in 1991.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780323554930 |
| ISBN 10 | 0323554938 |
| Title | Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary |
| Author | Dorland |
| Series | Dorland's Medical Dictionary |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division |
| Year published | 2018-07-27 |
| Number of pages | 864 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |