I am way past grammar school, believe me, but the words “Go look it up” still strike terror in my heart. Not because I do not like to look up new terms—far from it. The problem is that I cannot look up just one! I get side- tracked right away by intriguing entries that I just might want to use someday. In the interest of expediency, it is much easier to have someone tell me the meaning. Medicine has its own unique breed of terms, founded from Greek, Latin, and who knows where else. The cur- rent Stedman’s Medical Dictionary is a two-volume set a place where I could.
