''Black's Medical Dictionary'' (42nd ed, 2010, ) is a comprehensive medical dictionary featuring definitions of medical terms, concepts and conditions, published by A & C Black Publishers. It was first published in 1906, and is now in its forty-second edition. It is considered a simplified home reference for medical terms. According to the publisher, ''It contains over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over 1000 diagrams.'' The latest edition contains new and expanded sections on: *

HPV vaccine Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are vaccines intended to provide acquired immunity against infection by certain types of human papillomavirus. The first HPV vaccine became available in 2006. Currently there are six licensed HPV vaccines: ...

Monoclonal Antibodies A monoclonal antibody (mAb, more rarely called moAb) is an antibody produced from a Lineage (evolution), cell lineage made by cloning a unique white blood cell. All subsequent antibodies derived this way trace back to a unique parent cell. Mon ...

* Fibroid treatment *

Endoscopy An endoscopy is a procedure used in medicine to look inside the body. The endoscopy procedure uses an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike many other medical imaging techniques, endoscopes are insert ...

and laparoscopy * Coronary angioplasty * MRSA and

stem cell In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type of cell ...

research On April 1, 2010, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional became the new U.S. publisher of A&C Black titles. Distribution continues through

Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be on ...

List of editors

* John Dixon Comrie **1906 (1st edition) – 1942 (17th edition) *H. A. Clegg **1944 (18th edition) *W. A. R. Thomson **1948 (19th edition) – 1984 (34th edition) *C. W. H. Havard **1987 (35th edition) – 1990 (36th edition) * Gordon MacPherson **1992 (37th edition) – 2002 (40th edition) *Harvey Marcovitch **2005 (41st edition) -

References

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