title: Comparison of American medical dictionaries.
abstract: Although American medical dictionaries are a valuable part of any medical library collection, the attributes of each of the four major dictionaries are often unknown and the reference material contained in each unused. The medical librarian should be aware of the differences and values of each dictionary and try to have at least one edition of each available to library users in order to maintain an adequate reference collection.
mesh_terms: D001874:Book Selection; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D014481:United States