''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 * Monoclonal Antibodies * 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 inse ...

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laparoscopy Laparoscopy () is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions (usually 0.5–1.5 cm) with the aid of a camera. The laparoscope aids diagnosis or therapeutic interventions with a few small cuts in the abdomen.Medlin ...

Coronary angioplasty Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. The process involves combining coronary angioplasty with stenting, which is the ...

MRSA Methicillin-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'' (MRSA) is a group of Gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of ''Staphylococcus aureus''. MRSA is responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. ...

and stem 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 and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publ ...

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 Gordon Macpherson (born 9 October 1962) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A lock, Macpherson represented Poverty Bay and Otago at a provincial level. He played a single match for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, a test ag ...

**1992 (37th edition) – 2002 (40th edition) *Harvey Marcovitch **2005 (41st edition) -

References

{{Reflist 1906 non-fiction books Medical dictionaries A & C Black books