Elsevier's Dictionary of Medicine and Biology: In English, Greek, German, Italian and Latin

A quick search on web‐based bookshop sites reveals that the world does not appear to be over‐blessed with modern multilingual medical dictionaries in print – so this is a timely and worthy first edition, with the promise of more to come.

This two volume set aims to provide a reference to the medical and biological vocabulary of four world languages. The first volume is the Basic Table, which is an English to target language dictionary. This incorporates Latin terms, American spelling, and synonyms. Obsolete and archaic words have been ignored. The second volume contains an index of terms for Greek,...