Dictionary of Medical Laboratory Sciences

This dictionary of medical laboratory sciences contains nearly 3500 entries, mostly defining terms in use in the laboratory but also including notes on some disease states.

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Today's medical laboratory worker faces the need to understand an ever-widening range of specialist subjects. The increasing tendency for these to overlap leaves both scientifically and medically qualified staff - especially new entrants to the laboratory - with the difficult task of understanding the specialist language of many specialties other than their own. Medical laboratory scientists, pathologists and medical students need to be familiar with the languages of biotechnology, cellular pathology, clinical chemistry, computing, cytology, haematology, immunology, microbiology, microscopy, statistics, and transfusion science. The contributors to this dictionary, all acknowledged experts in their respective fields, have attempted to provide a