The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary: Containing All the Words and Phrases Generally Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences, with Their Proper Pronunciation, Derivation, and Definition (Classic Reprint)

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The eponymic terms have been placed in their proper alphabetical order, so that one nmd no longer be in doubt whether to look under test or reaction phenomenon T' or syndrome, sign, or symptom. For the desired information: this moreover permits the insertion of the nationality and the dates of birth and death of those te ferred to. The proper name is constant; generic terms vary.

The definitions are based upon the standard literature and authoritative text. Books of the day. And are not copied from the older vocabularies.

As to pronunciation: The alphabetical sound of the letter has been the key. This avoids the use of a con! Using number of diacritics. Only when there may be any doubt has the proper pronunciation been indicated by a diacritic mark. Over a letter means that that letter has its usual alphabetical sound.

Proper names and their derivatives only have been capitalized in the title-words; this is In accord with present usage which is a revival of the custom of some of the Iexicographers of the last century.

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