Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins
by Haubrich, William S
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Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 1997. Book. As New. Cloth. Octavo, red cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 253 pp. A fascinating collection of etymology, origins and history of the words, phrases and terms of medical terminology, arranged in dictionary fashion from A-Z. A beautiful very tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth and brilliant gilt spine titles in a similarly very tight, crisp, glossy, brilliant, unclipped dust jacket, with some soft creasing, crimping at top edges and spine, else fine. Very fine in very good plus dust jacket. ..
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- Title
- Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins
- Author
- Haubrich, William S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- American College of Physicians
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- MEDICAL, MEDICINE, DICTIONARY, TERMS, TERMINOLOGY, GLOSSARY, ETYMOLOGY, WORD, ORIGIN, LANGUAGE, PHYSICIAN, TREATMENT, CLINICAL, DISEASE, SURGERY, HISTORY, HAUBRICH,
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