This dictionary offers users approximately 10,000 overarching technical terms from the field of medicine, ranging from AAI pacemakers to cytophotometry. It includes concise definitions and brief explanations, abbreviations, acronyms, and etymological information, as well as biographical references to important figures, schematic representations, the English term for each technical term, and translations of Anglicisms. An appendix featuring a timeline of historical milestones in the technical development of medicine completes the book.