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The Dictionary contains over 50 000 terms, combinations, equivalents and meanings related to the following branches of medicine: anatomy, genetics, cytology, cardiology, therapy, surgery, pediatry, etc. It also comprises the basic terminology concerning prophylaxis and treatment of contagious diseases, alcohol and drug addiction as well as occupational hygiene, posttraumatic rehabilitation and postoperative curing, modern medical equipment and technologies. It may be of considerable value for the Dictionary users to find some abbreviations with their complete forms and respective equivalents in the English or Russian language. Some examples of professional slang and colloquial expressions used among the medical staff and represented in the Dictionary would be of great interest to the readers. The American spelling is used in the book. The Dictionary has been compiled to meet the needs of specialists who work in medicine and adjacent fields as well as of students, postgraduates, instructors and professors of the medical academies and colleges, translators of the literature on medicine. Slovar' soderzhit svyshe 50 000 terminov, sochetanij, jekvivalentov i znachenij iz sledujushhih oblastej mediciny: anatomija, genetika, citologija, kardiologija, terapija, hirurgija, pediatrija, i dr. Slovar' prednaznachen dlja specialistov, rabotajushhih v medicine i svjazannyh s neju oblastjah, a takzhe dlja studentov, aspirantov, prepodavatelej vysshih uchebnyh zavedenij i perevodchikov medicinskoj literatury.