Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Medical Dictionary

New title! A convenient guide to today's medical language for everyone from patients to medical professionals who need to communicate in both English and Spanish.

• Includes more than 12,000 medical terms and phrases with clear, concise definitions
• Bidirectional: Spanish to English and English to Spanish
• Entries include part-of-speech, noun gender, and abbreviations
• Includes anatomical illustrations and tables with topics such as immunizations, allergens, and types of surgeries–in English and Spanish
• Special sections include Spanish and English sounds and spelling; weights and measures; numbers, time, and temperature; a list of useful verbs in English and Spanish; and irregular Spanish verbs
• Appendices include: phrases used when communicating between patient and doctor and completing a medical history; symptoms of diseases and phrases used in medical emergencies; diagnostic tests; special vocabulary for common diseases such as diabetes and cancer; types of medications; and vocabulary for body positions and movements
• Perfect for use at home, work, school, in the community, and in health-care settings

• Format: Mass-market Paperback
• Size: 608 pages; 4 3/16" x 6 7/8"
• ISBN: 978-0-87779-823-1