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Although the entire book constitutes, as mentioned above, a sort of thesaurus, there is actually a Thesaurus section where, under main headings like Abortion, Afterlife, Assassination, Autopsy, Burial, etc., are listed synonyms arranged under categories like Examination, Investigation, Medical Examiner, and Morgue (for Autopsy) and Associations, chamber, exhumation, Mound, Premature, Preparation for, Receptacle, Shroud, and Types (for Burial).
The thesaurus of MANTIS and CINAHL are based on MeSH with supplements for certain subject areas.
The recently published Oxford Thesaurus , by Laurence Urdang, contains thousands of example sentences to illustrate usage, including a sprinkling of quirky specimens, all from the American Edition; these were excised from the British Edition on the grounds that they were distracting
At least the Oxford Thesaurus is included.
Some very talented people have brought their knowledge to bear on everyday questions and problems of language in this book: Martin Manser, whose Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary was favorably reviewed here [XIV, 2]; Betty Kirkpatrick, editor of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary ; Jonathon Green, compiler of the Thesaurus of Slang, Newspeak , and a Dictionary of Jargon (soon to be reviewed here); and John Silverlight, who writes a language column in The Observer , which I have not seen.