title: [The first Croatian medical dictionary of Dr. Ivan Dezman (on the 125th anniversary of publication)].
abstract: The year 1868 marked the publication of the first "Dictionary of Medical Terms" in the Croatian language, the work of the physician and writer Ivan Dezman (1841-1873) and one of the first professional dictionaries to appear in Croatia. In composing the dictionary Dezman made use of all the general Croatian language dictionaries which were available at the time, of the vernacular idioms as well as of the new words he coined himself. Although the dictionary was modest by volume, it comprised definitions for 3247 entries, its great value lied in the fact that is strongly influenced both the medical writing and future work on medical nomenclature.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za ocne bolesti, Klinickog bolnickog centra, i Medicinskog fakulteta u Zagrebu.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dugacki
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic; D049672:History, 19th Century
vernacular_title: Prvi hrvatski medicinski rjecnik dr. Ivana Dezmana (prigodom 125. obljetnice objavljivanja).