This expanded Second Edition of AMA Stedman's CPT(R) Dictionary will enhance readers' understanding of CPT(R) code descriptions and improve coding efficiency. Developed by the American Medical Association's CPT(R) experts in conjunction with Stedman's, this essential coding reference now contains newly customized definitions of medical terms used in CPT(R) code descriptors. Definitions are organized by the eight CPT(R) sections, allowing the user to locate a term and understand its meaning within a particular codebook section. New features include an additional 40 illustrations, the addition of more than 1,000 new terms for a total of over 9,000 definitions, and updated appendices listing critical information regarding medical synonyms, eponyms, abbreviations, and terminology.

CD-ROM includes all the feature of the print edition plus audio pronunciations for over 48,000 entries to help to master any term.

This pocket edition features more than 38,000 terms drawn from Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, Sixth Edition and Stedman's Medical Dictionary, Twenty-Eighth Edition, providing readers with a complete and comprehensive reference in a portable size. Features— A-to-Z organization quickly leads you to a definition. Written pronunciations assist you in spoken communications. Special icons identify terms that are combining forms. British alternative spellings are included. A free download provides users a fully searchable electronic version of the complete dictionary, as well as nine appendices, over 650 images, audio pronunciations for more than 34,000 terms, and 42 anatomical videos. With Stedman's Pocket Medical Dictionary, you not only read a definition, you can hear it, see it, and watch it in motion. Everything you need to understand and use medical terms correctly in all your communications is here, from the most trusted name in medical words.

Now thoroughly reviewed and updated to make it the most reliable dictionary available for healthcare professionals, this edition features more than 107,000 terms and definitions along with approximately 1,500 enhanced images and illustrations.

Featuring over 54,000 entries, this thoroughly updated Sixth Edition contains the medical terminology used in over 30 of today's fastest growing health profession areas--plus comprehensive inclusion of entries suited for the nursing field. The book includes 1,000 enriched color images and photographs, detailed images by Anatomical Chart Company in a glossy insert, 68 appendices, and cut thumb tabs for quick A-to-Z reference. More than 46 leading consultants from health professions and nursing contributed to the enhancements of this edition. A bound-in bonus CD-ROM includes the features of the print edition in fully searchable format, over 48,000 audio pronunciations, approximately 50 anatomical animations, "plus" Stedman's Plus Medical/Pharmaceutical Spellchecker.

The fifth edition of this popular medical dictionary is thoroughly updated with more than 51,000 entries, featuring more of the medical terminology used in more than 30 of todays fastest growing health profession areas. Includes a bonus CD-ROM that contains all the features of the print edition.