Current Medical Terminology 1963

This book represents a significant attempt to define the terms commonly employed in clinical medicine. The techniques for assembling the symptoms, signs, complications, x-ray and laboratory manifestations as well as the pathological findings for each disease capture the essential characteristics of several textbooks in a succinctly organized fashion. It is particularly helpful to record librarians to have the code numbers ofStandard Nomenclature of Diseases and Operationsincluded. This endeavor also represents a first step in the establishment of a workable approach to mobilizing quantitative information about the frequency of occurrence of each manifestation of these diseases by modern data processing methods. Eventually, a series of data matrices may be developed which will permit statistical analysis of clinical data as well as the means for establishing a centralized consulting service for computerized diagnostic appraisal of clinical histories, physical examinations, and laboratory findings which will be valuable to physicians and their