Abstract
As little as two or three decades from now, the publication of reference works such as medical dictionaries in book form may virtually cease. The change from printed books to on-line computer services will not only enable editors and compilers to make additions and corrections daily, but free them from the need to exclude valuable material in order to control the sheer bulk of their products. Until that day comes, medical dictionaries will continue to be revised only at intervals of years, and during those intervals the material they contain will grow increasingly stale, and the material they do not contain increasingly conspicuous by its absence. The appearance of a new edition of a major medical dictionary is therefore an event of some moment, raising a number of important questions. Have previous standards of correctness, conciseness, consistency, and comprehensiveness been maintained? Are the very latest terms included, and are the
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