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Jordana Publishing proudly announces the pending publication of Serbian and Croatian - English Medical Dictionary by S.P. Djordjević, MA, MA, PhD/abd ISBN: 978-0-97644-800-6 author's statement   downloads   endorsements

With close to 50,000 medical entries, this dictionary is the most extensive of its kind in this language combination:

• over 23,000 main entries
• over 25,000 subentries
• includes close to 1,600 abbreviations
• includes almost 1,700 eponyms
• includes a significant number of proprietary drugs
• Latin terms included in many English definitions
• proposed English translations for new and country-specific terms and abbreviations in Serbian and Croatian
• extensive notes on the use of the dictionary

    I was very pleased with the clarity of expression in all areas of medicine and very strongly recommend this new comprehensive medical dictionary to any professional working with medical publications in the Serbian and Croatian languages.

    Advances in medicine and related sciences are reflected in the new and changing medical lexicography, and this dictionary provides its users with important scientific and technical terminology found in current medical documentation and literature.

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  This article is based on a presentation at the 46th Annual ATA Conference as the invited speaker of the Slavic Language Division's Annual Susana Greiss Lecture.
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I have spent several decades as a medical translator from Slavic languages and French into English, and I am keenly aware of the lack of adequate multilingual medical references catering to translators of Serbian, Croatian, and English. For a long time now there has been a need for a new and comprehensive medical dictionary in these languages. It is for that reason that I decided to compile my thirty-plus years of working notes and publish this dictionary, which will eventually be supplemented by an English into Serbian volume.

Having spent most of my professional life as a translator of mainly clinical medicine and paramedicine, I have concentrated my efforts in these particular areas. However, other branches of medicine are also represented, such as emergency medicine, molecular biology, genetics, embryology, and organ transplant. This dictionary also includes terms from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, dentistry, and even social services. I have also included some proprietary drugs.

Because many terms have different and multiple meanings not only in English but also in Serbian and Croatian, I have included a number of definitions in the target language for clarification. These English-language definitions are taken mostly from standard medical references, especially Stedman's Medical Dictionary (mainly the 26th edition), Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (mainly the 18th edition) and Dorland's Medical Dictionary (mainly the 30th edition), and I wish to thank Williams and Wilkins (Baltimore), F.A. Davis Company (Philadelphia) and W.B. Saunders Co. (Philadelphia), publishers of Stedman's, Taber's and Dorland's, respectively. The use of definitions in English is a unique contribution to medical lexicography in this language pair.