DICTIONARIES & GLOSSARIES

Compiled by Frank Stitt MBBS FRACP
Online Medical Education, Sydney, Australia

Directories

Healthfinder: Medical Dictionaries
"a comprehensive directory that contains a linked list of medical dictionaries and glossaries on the Internet; able to locate numerous specialty dictionaries; from initial page, click on 'medical dictionaries' link"
Online Medicine and Science Dictionaries
"a linked list of General and Specialist (subject) online medical dictionaries & glossaries; an Internet directory and resource site developed by Science.komm"

Resources

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
"the largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English language to the Web. Search from over 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science; organized by seven scientific fields including life sciences and medicine; organized by subject within each field; contains keyword search engine"
Chemistry Glossary
"alphabetical glossary of basic chemistry terminology from the (US) University of Wisconsin-Madison; is comprehensive and easily navigated"
Dictionary of Cell Biology
"provides quick access to easily-understood and cross-referenced definitions of terms frequently encountered in biology literature; contains the text of the 1995 Second edition and new entries for the third edition; included; includes keyword search engine"
Dictionary of Demographic and Reproductive Health Terminology
"the dictionary consists of terminology and definitions in English, French and Spanish taken from the Users' Guide to POPLINE Keywords, a manual for users of the POPLINE bibliographic database; produced by the United Nations Population Information Network"
Dictionary of Epidemiology
"an alphabetical listing of classical and ecological epidemiology, immunology and biostatistics; contains linked cross references within each definition; compiled by the University of Cambridge"
Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
"a dictionary of all acronyms and abbreviations that are pharmaceutical-related; companies, government bodies and pharma colleges around the world have supplied input (new acronyms and abbreviations) and feedback (accuracy and corrections); developed by Christian Nordqvist, Pharma-Lexicon International"
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary: the latest word on medical terms
"a sophisticated electronic version of this comprehensive medical dictionary; includes basic (keyword) and advanced search engines"
On-Line Medical Dictionary
"a comprehensive, searchable dictionary of terms relating to biochemistry, biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, zoology, science and technology; contains alphabetical and keyword access plus links within the definitions"
Office of Rare Diseases: Glossary
"basic glossary used to describe key terms in 6000 rare diseases; alphabetically organized; prepared from glossaries developed at the (U.S.) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, (U.S.) National Institutes of Health's Understanding Gene Therapy On-line Glossary, and the Genetics Education Center, (U.S.) University of Kansas Medical Center"
PharmInfoNet Glossary
"useful for the explanation of medical and pharamcological terminology, also includes links back to other sections for further information"
PharmaLexicon: A Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
"in this site, user is able to identify the most popular medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations and its meaning; can search by alphabetical list or keyword; also contains fulltext news articles plus links to health related sites by broad subjects"
Surgical/Medical Glossary
"a comprehensive listing of surgical equipment, procedures and terminology; from the initial page, click on 'Surgical Word Glossary'; includes and alphabetical listing and internal links within definitions"

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