Practical Textbook of Laboratory Medicine is a comprehensive, ?all-in-one? resource book for medical graduates, laboratory technicians, practitioners. It covers the subject at a level suitable for the students of MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BUMS, BHMS, BSc (MLT), BSc (Nursing) and all allied health sciences courses, both in theoretical aspects and in preparation for the practical examinations. The Textbook is divided into eight sections ? Laboratory Medicine: Purpose and Practice, ? Pathology, ? Clinical Pathology, ? Histopathology, ? Microbiology, ? Biochemistry, ? Blood Banking and Immunology and ? Laboratory Accreditation and Quality. The book places great emphasis on learning basic techniques and use of quality control methodology to ensure accurate reports, which is very useful for laboratory technologists. The book is thoroughly updated and comprises clearly understandable, illustrative diagrams and tables for easy adoptability and reproducibility. There is a need of practical knowledge for medical and nursing students, practitioners, clinicians and all technicians involved in laboratory work. The author has used his extensive experience as an examiner of MBBS, BHMS and other courses in allied health sciences, and curriculum designer in developing and refining the book. The revised illustrations with interpretive pathology and a number of new colour diagrams have been introduced to depict pathology for easy understanding of the basics.