Online Medical and Biomedical Dictionaries & Glossaries

11 www.glossarist.com/glossaries/health-medicine-fitness - a List of Dental Glossaries from the Glossarist, including: a. A dictionary of dental terms - Extensive and comprehensive dictionary of Dentistry and Orthodontic terms.
 b. Dental Glossary - Dental Review Online - A glossary of dental terms.
 c. Oral Physiology Dictionary - A Dictionary designed to assist students studying Oral Physiology, cross referenced and cross linked.

E. Diabetes & Kidney-related glossaries - sites em inglês, com um site em francês, outro em espanhol, e um site em português.

1 Diabetes Dictionary, Children from NIDDK (in layman's terms)
2 Diabetes Dictionary by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
3 Diabetes A-Z from the diabetic digest
4 Rick Mendosa's huge Diabetes Directory: dozens of excellent Links to informative sites on diabetes, neuropathy, etc.
5 Rick Mendosa's excellent Diabetes Directory: dozens of great Links to informative sites on diabetes: Non-English Web Sites
6 Neuropathy on the Web by Rick Mendosa. This man has done his homework!
7 On-line Diabetes Resources by Rick Mendosa
8 Jennie Brand-Miller's The Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index
9 Diabetes Dictionary from the NIH
10 Insulin terms Glossary from insulin-free.org
11 Home page of the American Diabetes Association. No Glossary but lots of info.
12 American Diabetes Association, different URL for their main page?
13 Diabetes Glossary from the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Last updated in March, 1999?
14 MediLinks Diabetes information sites. not a glossary.
15 Children With Diabetes
16 GI/GU/Liver & Kidney Transplant Glossary from Dartmouth University
17 kidneypatientguide Glossary in layman's language, UK
18 Kidney Failure Glossary - words that are often used when people talk or write about kidney failure and its treatments
19 Ressources Internet sur le Diabète (source Alfediam). Mostly English-language resources are listed here. But this page by Pierre Yves Benhamou is almost all in French. No Glossary.
20 A glossary of kidney terms from russlover
21 Diabetes Condition Center from WebMD
22a Diabetes information in Spanish from the CDC; There is a LINK to a Spanish-only glossary here:
22b Diccionario de la Diabetes: se definen vocablos que con frecuencia se emplean al hablar o al escribir sobre la diabetes
23 Diabetes 123 - Diabetes Dictionary:
24 DiabeteNet.Com.Br Brazilian diabetes site, all in Portuguese. There is a glossary of diabetes terminology they are calling “Diabetologuês ”. A lay person's explanation of basic terms relating to diabetes: "um vocabulário básico e simplificado dos principais termos relativos ao assunto ”.
25 Engraftment of transplanted pancreatic islets (article/thesis in Swedish language), Engraftment av transplanterade Langerhanska öar


F. eMedicine: Instant access to the minds of medicine..
Thousands of Medical Review Articles . · . Index of eMedicine journals:
1 October, 2000 . · Volume 1, No 10
2 November, 2000 . · Volume 1, No 11: Medical Review Articles
3 December, 2000 . · Volume 1, No 12; Medical Review Articles
4 January, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 1 - Medical Review Articles
5 February, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 2 - Medical Review Articles
6 March, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 3 - Medical Review Articles
7 April, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 4: 107 Medical Review Articles
8 May, 2001 . · Volume 2, Number 5: 248 Medical Review Articles
9 June, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 6: 426 Medical Review Articles
10 July, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 7: 570 Medical Review Articles
11 August, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 8: 316 Medical Review Articles
12 September, 2001 . · Volume 2, No 9: 662 Medical Review Articles
13 October, 2001 · Volume 2, Number 10: 494 Medical Review Articles
14 November, 2001 · Volume 2, Number 11: 693 Medical Review Articles
15 December, 2001 · Volume 2, Number 12: 530 Medical Review Articles
16 January, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 1: 515 Medical Review Articles
17 February, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 2
18 March, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 3
19 April, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 4: hundreds of medical review articles
20 May, 2002 . · Volume 3, Number 5: hundreds of medical review articles
21 June, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 6: hundreds of medical review articles
22 July, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 7: hundreds of medical review articles

The following anticipated pages DO NOT SEEM TO EXIST! The last journal of this series appears to be the July 2002 issue. It appears that they simple ceased posting their journals at that point.. :-(
23 August, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 8: no Medical Review Articles. Nothing. Nada
24 September, 2002 . · Volume 3, No 9?? Nothing; this pages does not exist
25 October, 2002 · Volume 3, Number 10: Nope
26 November, 2002 · Volume 3, Number 11: Nothing here
27 December, 2002 · Volume 3, Number 12: does not exist
28 January, 2003 . · Volume 4 forget it



G. Gastro-Enterology, Digestive System, Nutrition, Food Safety and Eating Disorders
1 Nutrition Glossary from lifeservices.com
2 Gastrointestinal system - Medical College of Wisconsin
3 Digestive Health and Disease: A Glossary Understanding Your GI Tract
4 The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy pictures & info on Esophagus, Stomach, Duodenum & Ampulla, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Colon & Ileum, etc.
5. Glossary of Food Safety Terms by the Food Safety & Quality Project, Iowa State University
6. Glossary of Terms from the Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
7. Complete Source of Nutritional Information from nutritionfocus.com
8. glossary of Digestive Disorders from the University of Maryland Medicine
9. Digestive and Medicinal Glossary from HealthSuperstore.com: entries go from Achene & Achlorhydria to Yerba Santa & Yucca Root. This page is full of typos, poor punctuation and mediocre grammar, such as “Modern herbalist's still use it...” and “glossory”; <Herbalist's say its steroid-like compounds actually contain the hormones testosterone, progesterone and cortin>
10. Columbia Univ. Gastroenterology
11. Glossary from the Portland Digestive Disease Research Center, from Abdominal Paracentesis to Video Esophagram
12. Digestive Disorders Glossary from Community Health Care in Wasau, MI: from abdomen & absorption through Zenker's diverticulum & Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
13. Geri Ann Glossary by Richard Rathe, MD at univ. of Florida, 1995-1998: from “Activities of Daily Living” to “Urinary Incontinence Treatment ”.
14. Review Glossary by http://www.acg.gi.org/acg-dev/patientinfo/frame_gitract.html Digestive Health and Disease: A Glossary - Understanding Your GI Tract
15. Irritable Bowel Syndrome Glossary by Shawn Eric Case
16. Digestive & Liver Disorders Glossary - University of Utah Health Sciences Center
17. Dr. Greenson's Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology Extravaganza
18. Digestive Diseases Dictionary, by the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases; last updated in 2000?
19. Gastroenterology Glossary from www.medhelp.org
20. Gastrolab Gastrointestinal Encyclopedia, a dictionary for people with digestive diseases and for medical students and health care professionals. Ultimately there will be no medical term in the field of gastroenterology that will not get its explanation in this site.
20. Gastrolab' Mag-Tarm Lexikon

H. Genetics, Molecular Biology & Genomics glossaries, biotechnology

1 Human Gene Mutation Database
2 A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms prepared & presented by Dr. Birgid Schlindwein - http://hal.weihenstephan.de/genglos/asp/genreq.asp?list=1
3 GeneClinics: Medical Genetic Info
4 Encyclopedia of E. coli Genes & Metabolism
5 List of terms, concepts & techniques commonly used in genetics and molecular biology.
6 Glossary of Genetic Terms from the National Human Genome Research Institute
7 Alpha glossary list/glossary categories & search engine from Cambridge Healthtech Institute - www.genomicglossaries.com/content/genomics_glossary.asp
8 Glossaries of Genome/Human Genetics Terms from the Genetics Education Center of the University of Kansas; Links to 34 glossaries are listed here; all are in English only
9 Glossaries of Genome/ Genetic Conditions/ Rare Conditions; Support Groups & Information = Languages other than English; Directory from the Genetics Education Center of the University of Kansas
10 human genome, genetics glossary from HGMIS
11 Genome Glossary: a glossary of genetic terms from the DOE Human Genome Program.
12 Glossary of Genetic Terms from geneticsnow.com. It's excellent.
13 Genomics Lexicon from PhRMA Genomics... See #13 below
14 PhRMA, FGM: The Genomics (Genetic Medicine) Lexicon: a searchable database of terms & definitions
15 Genome Glossary ORNL
16 Human Genome Project Information. A glossary of genetic terms from the DOE Human Genome Program.
17 Peter Ford's genetics glossary, last updated in 1997 (out of date!?)
18 Forest Genetics Glossary by C. Maynard. Last updated 06/12/1996??
19 Genetics Glossary from Mapping Our Genes The Genome Projects: How Big, How Fast?
20 la Génie Génétique: Lexique Anglais-Français (English-French Genetic Engineering Glossary)
21 Glossary of `istry & Molecular Biology by David M. Glick
22 Molecular Biology Glossary - A Quick and Dirty Reference to Terms Used in Molecular Biology. By Dr. Robert H. Lyons, Director of the University of Michigan DNA Sequencing Core.
23 Biotech Life Science U of Texas, Dictionary: over 8,300 terms dealing with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
24 Biotech Life Science Search; U of Texas, Dictionary: Search 8,300 terms dealing with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics.
25 Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology. But online free access is restricted to occasional use (1 day out of every 90 days). They try to get you to buy it on CD ROM.
26 United Nations Interpretation: Genetic Engineering Glossary French, English & Spanish (very limited). You have to first click on <Glossaries>, then choose and click on one of 7 language combinations to the right of the words “Genetic Engineering ”.
27 www.angelfire.com/ca/vlietstra/af.html Biology Dictionary, Three complete online searchable dictionaries
28 un glossaire de la génétique moleculaire - la génie génetique. Glossary in French and English; definitions are in French.
29 Mendelian Inheritance in Man from the NIH
30 Bioinformatics Glossary from IncyteGenomics: key words from Annotation, BAC, & BLAST to WWW2GCG and YAC
31 glossary of medical terms relating to Noonan syndrome from TNSSG Inc.
32 Bioweb.CH bioltechnologie information in French ONLY, Switzerland
33 Genomics Lexicon: a searchable database of terms and definitions
34 biotech glossary from biotechmedia.com
35 Biotechnical Glossary for the 21st Century
36 Genetics Glossary by Peter Ford, UK
37 Lexique Génetique Anglais-Français
38 Glossary of Genetic Terms from the Genetic Science Learning Center at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics University of Utah. From acrocentric to zygote.
39 Glossary of the Science of Genetics
40 The Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology. Third Edition, by JM Lackie & JAT Dow
41 In Spanish: Glosario de Términos Genéticos, from the National Human Genome Research Institute (El Instituto Nacional de Investigación del Genoma Humano)
42 In Mueller: Emery's Elements of Medical Genetics from fleshandbones.com
43 Glossary of Genetics - Rockefeller (content is the same as http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/glossary)
44 Glossar: Molekularbiologie und forensische DNA-Analyse (German version of the previous item (43) at http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/glossary/genetics.html
45 Illustrated GeneTests Glossary of Genetics, from affected to zygosity testing.
46 Genomics Online Terms from Foundation for Genetic Medicine, Inc.
47 Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes & Genomes Detailed information in English only, no Japanese.
48 Medische Biotechnologie Dutch language glossary from the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health and Welfare
49 Glossary of Biochem Terrorism: from agreoterrorism to weapons of mass destruction
50 Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Hematology: www.infobiogen.fr/services/chromcancer
51 Atlas de Genêtica e Citogenêtica em Oncologia e Hematologia Portuguese version of #50 above, translated into Portuguese by Geraldo A. S. Passos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazi.
52 OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Manwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim

53 Nomenclature Guidelines www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/guidelines.html

54 The Genetic Location Database - cedar.genetics.soton.ac.uk/public_html
55 Multilingual Glossary of Forest Genetic Resources in English, German, French and Spanish
56 Glossar der Fachausdrücke in German only, by Rupert Sheldrake, “Das Gedächtnis der Natur", 1993
57 TransGen Lexikon: Transparenz für Gentechnik German Language genetics glossary, Auch: Die TransGen-Datenbank
58 the GAPS Index to Information on the Internet about Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects: from Abduction and Aberration to Y chromosome.
59 Dr-Belair Genetics dictionary EN-FR : Dictionnaire anglaias-français de génétique

60 UCMP Glossary: Biochemistry. Also includes glossaries on: Phylogenetics; Geology; Cell biology; Ecology; Life history; Zoology; Botany; änd Paleogeography
61 Glossaire de la biotechnologie pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture

62? http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/genetics/glossnew.html is a DEAD URL: this glossary no longer exists, so we don't include a LINK to it here.


I. Heart & Lungs, pulmonary, cardiology & cardiovascular
1 Heart Surgery Glossary by healthwatch.medscape.com
2 Glossary of perfusion technology, open heart surgery & cardiology; Medical University of South Carolina
3 info on the heart muscle disease called Cardiomyopathy
4 Heart Surgeons' Glossary (from Mid Atlantic Surgical Associates
5 I "Mega-trial" Cardiologici: gli Acronimi in English & Italian, Acronyms & Giornale telematico di informazione scientifica medico-cardiologica
6 Cardiovascular system - Medical College of Wisconsin
7 Respiratory system - Medical College of Wisconsin
8 Glossary of Pulmonary & Cardiovascular Terms in English, by André, about 25 pages
9 American Heart Assoc - AHA Glossary http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=10000056
10 Cardiovascular Terms Univ of Utah, School of Pharmacy
11 Glossary of Cardiovascular Terminology - Trinitas Hospital
12 Cardiovascular Terminology from TMC.edu
13 Pacemaker Glossary medtronic
14 Pacemaker terms sjm.com
15 MedHunt: Medical Document finder from Health on the Net Foundation, HON.ch, in Switzerland - http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/MedHunt_f.html
16 Devices Reviewed by the Division of Cardiovascular & Respiratory Devices (defibrillator, pacemaker, cardiac monitoring device, etc.
17 Heart Info Network Glossary of Terms...
18 Hypertension Network Glossary on high blood pressure
19 Texas Heart Institute Glossary of Terms
20 Heart Failure, a Glossary of cardiovascular terms from Guidant.
21 The Pulmonary Paper, Glossary of Terms (from Alveolus & Arterial Blood Gas to Tracheostomy & Vital Capacity)
22 Medical dictionary from the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation; excellent. From ACE inhibitors to Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Comprehensive source of info on heart diseases and stroke.
23 Heart Preview Gallery - a tour of the heart based on The Franklin Institute's walk-through Heart
exhibit. See http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/glossary.html for very short glossary
24 Heart Wise UK & Overseas Heart Society - no glossary that I could find
25 MASA Heart Surgery Glossary English terms explained in English. DEAD LINK when I tried it repeatedly on 5-22-2002
26 Glossary of Terms Used in Time Series Analysis of Cardiovascular Data, from Akaike information criterion, Aliasing & Anacrotic pulse through Z analysis and Zero-padding. Last updated in August_2001
27 Glossary of Terms and Acronym Expansions for Perfusion Technology, Open Heart Surgery and Cardiology from the Cardiovascular Perfusion Education Program & Life Support Departments of the Medical University of South Carolina
28 Yale University School of Medicine HEART BOOK; Medical Editors Barry L. Zaret, M.D., Marvin Moser, M.D., Lawrence S. Cohen, M.D. Last updated 9 April 2002 (all book content is from 1992 edition). Unfortunately, the glossary www.med.yale.edu/library/heartbk/glossary.pdf is in PDF format, would not load. PDF is an annoying, useless and proprietary format.
Deus me livre do pecado de pôr mais PDFs no mundo... Formatozinho nojento.
29 CardioSource: a collaboration of Elsevier and the American College of Cardiology Foundation
30 Distúrbios do Coração e dos Vasos Sangüíneos - Capítulo 27 do Manual Merck: Doença Arterial Coronariana. A doença arterial coronariana é um distúrbio no qual depósitos ...(in Portuguese)
31 Angioplastia facilitada de Liliana Grinfeld (in Spanish). Ella es Jefa Servicio de Hemodinamia y Cardiología Intervencionista, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

32 Saludcardiovascular.com: un portal especializado en la enfermedad cardiovascular y en sus principales factores de riesgo: hipertensión, dislipemia, diabetes y tabaquismo.

33 How Congestive Heart Failure Works, article by Carl Bianco, M.D., part of "How Stuff Works"

J. Managed Care, HMO, health insurance, Medicare and Healthcare industry

1 Managed Health Care - a Brief Glossary
2 Glossary of Terms in Managed Health Care (Pam Pohly's Net Guide); http://www.pohly.com/terms.shtml
3 MCOL Managed Care Dictionary - contains over 380 managed care terms
4 Pam Pohly's Net Guide: Glossary of Words Used in Managed Care
5 Health Insurance Benefits Vocabulary from BenefitPerks.com
6 PDR.net for consumers Healthcare Information You Can Trust
7 Medicare Glossary from the U.S. government
8 Glosario de Términos Medicare glossary in Spanish
9 Glossary of key terms related to health insurance and the issue of the uninsured prepared by CoveringtheUninsured.org
10 Healthcare Informatics - the Latest Word, by Pamela Tabar
11 Glossary of Healthcare Terms from ehealthcoach.com
12 Health insurance glossary; managed health care; in Portuguese only
13 Glossário Sul América Saúde; Health insurance, in Portuguese only. Slow to load, even though it is only a few pages. Similar to http://www.abrigo.com.br/glossario.htm
14 Glossary: Healthcare Terminology Made Simple
15 Glossários de Odontologia, de Seguros; downloadable Dental and Insurance Glossaries in Portuguese from UniBero, http://www.unibero.edu.br/glossarios_mno.asp; also Glossário de Teologia & Glossário de Sociologia, downloadable.
16 Glossary of Insurance Terms from NILS INSource on the web
17. A Swiss glossary site about insurance (including Health Insurance). This site includes French, Italian and English but as separate pages; nothing is bilingual or trilingual. Thus, in order for you to find out that “Health Care Service Regulations ”is the English equivalent of “Krankenpflege-Leistungsverordnung, ”you have to scroll down to a green area on the left side of the screen where you find the words Deutsch Français Italiano English and click on German, or the other language you might need.

K. Musculo-Skeletal System, Osteoporosis and Human Anatomy glossaries
1. DEAD LINK: DAVID Online Atlas of Human Anatomy for Clinical Imaging Diagnosis
Developed by J.C. Oberson MD. Copyright ® 1998. An excellent resource. The following 27 pages (and a hundred others not listed here) are all sub-pages of DAVID: DEAD LINK?
2. NOW DEAD LINK : http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon01.html Occipital bone, - detailed definitions & illustrations
3. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon05.html Cervical vertebrae, - detailed definitions & illustrations
4. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon06.html Thoracic & Lumbar vertebrae, - detailed definitions & illustrations
5. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon08.html Thoracic Skeleton, Ribs and Sternum - detailed definitions
6. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon08.html Cranial bones and Skull - detailed definitions
7. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon10.html Sphenoid bone (os sphenoidale) - detailed definitions
8. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon11.html Frontal bone and - detailed definitions & illustrations
9. Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon12.html Ethmoid Bone And Inferior Nasal Concha - detailed definitions & illustrations
10 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon13.html Lacrimal bone, Vomer and Nasal bone - detailed definitions & illustrations
11 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon14.html Maxilla: Upper jaw bone - detailed definitions & illustrations
12 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon15.html Palatine bone - detailed definitions & illustrations
13 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon16.html Zygomatic bone - detailed definitions & illustrations
14 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon17.html Mandible (mandibula): Lower jaw bone - detailed definitions & illustrations
15 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon18.html Hydoid bone - detailed definitions & illustrations
16 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon19.html Nasal cavity - detailed definitions & illustrations
17 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon20.html Orbit: Bilateral cone-shaped bony cavity that contains the eyeball - definitions & illustrations
18 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon22.html Appendicular Skeleton & the Pelvic and Shoulder Girdles - definitions & illustrations
19 21 Now DEAD LINKS!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon25.html Humerus - detailed definition & 3 illustrations 22 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon26.html Radius - detailed definitions & 3 illustrations
23 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon27.html Ulna - detailed definitions & three illustrations
24 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon28.html Carpal bones - detailed definitions & 3 illustrations
25 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon29.html Metacarpal bones and metacarpus - detailed definitions & illustrations
26 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon30.html Bones of the fingers & hand - detailed definitions & illustrations
27 Now a DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon04.html Vertebral Column & Vertebrae - detailed definitions & illustrations
28 Now just another DEAD LINK!: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon03.html Parietal bones, - detailed definitions & illustrations
29 Bone Marrow Transplant Stanford University Med School
30 Bone Marrow Glossary from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
31 Osteoporosis Glossary by Aventis also some general info in French & German
32 Osteoporosis Glossary thriveonline (only about 1½ pages)
33 Osteoporosis Glossary by Aventis letter "B"; but the letters AGHIL&N were just blank pages
DEAD LINK: http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon23.html Scapula (shoulder blade) - detailed definitions & illustrations
DEAD LINK http://www.cid.ch/DAVID/Bon/Bon24.html Clavicle (collar bone) - detailed definitions & 2 illustrations

20 :-(
34 Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body by Bartleby.com. Excellent, complete!
35 Musculoskeletal system - Medical College of Wisconsin
36 Anatomical Planes, Aspects and Directions Illustrated - Animations
37 Anatomical Word of the Month: explanations of how anatomy-related words came about
38 Visible Human (human anatomy) ~
39 Apuntes de Anatomia: clasificación anatómica internacional (del Instituto Quimico Biológico). Vease tb http://www.iqb.es/Diccio/A/Aciduria.htm www.iqb.es/diccio/g/gl.htm - the content is excellent but screens are sluggish; if they spent less time and bandwidth on pretty graphics and backdrops, it would be more impressive to me.
40 Glosario de la Anatomia Humana Sistematica Aplicada, de

L. Natural, Homeopathic, Holistic & alternative medicine, herbal healing and Ethnic medicine

1 Homeopathy from mothernature.com
2 natural health, alternative medicine, anhydrosis, cholagogue, decoction
3 Diets and Therapies from mothernature.com
4 Homeopathy International
5 Alternative Medicine Glossary from life_enrichment.com
6 Herbs, Vitamins and Minerals from healthfinder.org
7 Wellness Guide to Dietary Supplements, from Aloe to Zinc; by UC Berkeley
8 Herbal/Botanical list from www.botanical.com
9 Herbs & Vitamins Glossary
10 Herbs, by Herblink.net, a glossary
11 Herbs, Vitamins & Minerals by trinitywellness.com
12 Herbs from wellnet.ca
13 Holistic Health Terms from innerself.com magazine
14 Allopathic & Natural Health Glossary, from “Abdominal muscles ”to "Zygote intrafallopian transfer"
Try to avoid the main Intro page that is in PDF format only....
15 DocteurHomeo.com l'homéopathie et la phytothérapie pratique!
16 in French: Liens externes aux sites reliés aux médecines douces, naturopathie, homéopathie, etc.
17 Ethnomed: Ethnic medicine information from Harborview Medical Center; Includes Culture Specific Pages for Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Mexican, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, Vietnamese
18 A Naturosofia: una introdução às terapias; (in Portuguese, from Portugal)
19 Medicinal Plants glossary from Cefak K.G., Germany (also available in German)
20 Alternative, Holistic and Natural Medicine Therapies promote optimal health and minimize the risks of heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, pneumonia and other life-threatening diseases
21 Herbal Remedies for you claims to provide "qualified medical information ”(about complementary and alternative medicine. http://www.med-4-you.com/404,15484898631234567890105120871111/herbs/index.html is their “Species Database Main Index ”with Latin Names and Common Names of plants
22 herbal medicine, medical, natural, plants and herbs listed with their common and scientific names; Extensive fact sheets . from herbalsafety
23 Yohimbe and Cockatoo Press' Viagra & medicinal herbs dictionary; Last updated: August_22, 2000; heading is “Better sex with mailorder Viagra”

24 Glossary of Herbs, Vitamins and Minerals

25 Glossary of Herbs from wellnet.ca

25 Glossary of Herbs and Vitamins from herba-medica

27 Glossary of Herbs, Vitamins and Minerals from healthsalon.com

28 Alternative Therapies Glossary, from Acupuncture and Aromatherapy to Traditional Chinese medicine and Yoga
29 Glossary of Alternative Medicine: the Art & Science of Healthy Living


M. Neurosciences/Neurology, Headaches, Brain & nervous system dictionaries & glossaries
1 Brain Tumor Patients Harvard;
2 Brain Tumor Glossary - ABTA
3 Brain Page by Jane in Maui
4 Brain Injury Glossary
5 Glossary of Terms about the brain & its functions: axon, cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, nervous system, neurons, neurology, etc.
6 Nervous system - Medical College of Wisconsin
7 Immune & Nervous System Glossary
8 National Spinal Cord Injury Association includes some glossary
9 Alzheimer's Glossary ¿ from www.alz.org
10 www.alzheimers.com
11 Brain & Brain disorders Glossary from the Lundbeck Institute; but: “register here (only for healthcare professionals).&rquo; What about the rest of us?
12 TBI Glossary - medical terms commonly associated with head injury
13 Migraine Glossary from the Headache and Migraine Management Journal Online. Among others: abdominal migraine, basilar artery migraine, cluster headaches, inflammatory headaches, ophthalmoplegic migraine, rebound headache
14 Headaches and Migraines Glossaryfrom AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Zomig drug site. topics include classic migraine, common migraine, menstrual migraine, muscle contraction migraine, ocular migraine, tension headache & vascular headaches
15 Mark Dubin's NeuraLinksPlus Index Page
16 Bioscience Mnemonics from Mneumonx
17 Brain Injury Glossary from waiting.com
18 Neurosurgical Terms from neurosurgery.org
19 Cognitive Science Dictionary from the University of Alberta
20 ABTA Dictionary for Brain Surgery Patients, Harvard
21 Terms for Cognitive Behavioral & Neurologic Disorders a Brainer.. last updated in 1997.....?
22 Encyclopedia of Cybernetics and Related Philosophy Principia Cybernetica Web
23 Elsevier Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 2nd Edition Updates (English & Dutch)
24 Extensive Etymology of Neuroscience Prefixes
25 Neuroanatomical and Neurological Terms Glossary - Common, basic terminology
26 Neuroscience Glossary - UTMB in Utah
27 Neurologic Disorder Information and Glossary Description, treatment, prognosis & links for a large number of disorders. (from NIMH)
28 Neurology Handbook: A compendium of www links presented as "chapters" in a virtual textbook
29 Neurology Signs and Manifestations, with Brief Descriptions
30 Glosario Enciclopédico de Neurociencias y Salud Mental; in Spanish - http://www.insm.es/glosario
31 Philosophy Encyclopedia Online Project (Stanford) is it REALLY being continuously written & updated, as they claim?
32 Philosophy of Mind Dictionary - Cooperative effort that defines main terms
33 Glossary: The Language of Central Pain Ouch!
34 MedFriendly: easy-to-read, jargon-free information on a large number on topics, including neurology, psychology, dermatology, and other medical areas. There is also a message board. MedFriendly is presented in an easy to understand and conversational manner. Here, complex words are not used in the definition of medical terms without an explanation as to what they mean. By Dominic A. Carone, Jr., M.S., Neuropsychology Internont
35 Glossary of Neurological Terms (Univeristy of Manitoba)
36 Glossary of Assessment Terminology from New Assessment: Early Childhood Resources. From Action and Active Alert to Visual Defensiveness and Vocal Play.
37 German Society of Neurogenetics (auf Deutsch und Englisch)
38 Yahoo!s Neuroscience (list of web sites, not glossaries)
Alzheimer's Disease, with clear explanations in English
40 Neuroscience Glossary and Brief Tutorials from THE CEREBRAL CODE: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind a book by William H. Calvin
41 Neurobiology Glossary of Terms from the Neurobiology Department
42 Neural Definitions from John H. Krantz at Hanover College; from Amygdala and Anterior Cerebral Artery to Voltage. See also http://krantzj.hanover.edu/Krantz/
43 Web site of The Muscular Dystrophy Association: The source for news & information about neuromuscular diseases, MDA research and services for adults and children with neuromuscular diseases and their families.
44 Illustrated Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology: the neuron; the neuroglia; the blood vessels; the choroid plexus; the peripheral nerves and ganglia; the meninges; abnormalities
44 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: BSE Glossary & Dictionary references from The BSE Inquiry
45 Neuroscience and Medical Education Glossary??? on 8/12/2004, this site did not appear to exist, and all I could get was “http://about.com/homework ”apparently a lame “Homework Help ”page with nothing medical and nothing related to Neuroscience ...


N. Ophthalmology, Optical, Ocular, Eyes, and vision-related Sites & Glossaries (English and Spanish)

1. Glossary of Vision and Refractive Surgery Terms from the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance
2. Glossary of Vision Terms from the National Eye Institute
3. Laser Eye Surgery PRK
4. Glossary of Optical & Ophthalmological Terms from Medical Eye Services
5. Visionary Dictionary of Terminology in Vision Research; written and maintained by Lars Liden, BU
6. Vos yeux et votre vision. Y inclus: votre optométriste, les lentilles de contact, les maladies des yeux, la vision des bébés, des enfants, les rayons ultra-violets: que sont-ils et comment se protéger?, la vision et l'automobile, la vision des vieux
7. Glosario de Oftamalogía by Dr. Demetrio Pita Salorio, Barcelona, Spain. Spanish & English, with definitions only in Spanish. Contiene 6.537 términos ordenados alfabéticamente. It has 6,537 terms with Spanish definitions, synonyms and English translation. Es un diccionario terminológico de oftalmología, in Spanish only, from a team of doctors in Barcelona, Spain
8. Glosario de la Oftalmología, en español solamente: in Spanish only
9. Glossary of Vision Terms from Vision-Therapy.com... from 20/20 and AC/A Ratio to Yoked Prisms
10. Visionary: a dictionary of terminology used in the study of vision
11. Glossary of Sight Terms from Preserve Sight - Colorado
12. Ophthalmology Online: A help guide for ophthalmologists and medical students
13. Glossário Ladarvision, in Portuguese, by Alcon Laboratories, Inc.; from “Aba da córnea” to “Vaporização”
14. Glossary, Terminology and Definitions from Jahrling Ocular Prosthetics
15. MT Desk's Glossary of Ophthalmologic Terms (a simple list with no definitions or translations)
16. Les maladies des yeux; la Recherche en Ophtalmologie: an ophthalmological informative site IN FRENCH
17. Lexique de l'Institut de la Myopie: a short but very informative illustrated glossary IN FRENCH. From Accommodation to Zonule
18. comprehensive eye dictionary from careforyoureyes.com
19. Diccionario ojos2.com, in English and Spanish, from Mexico. I did just like it says, clicked on any letter of the alphabet.. but all I got was a blank white screenful of nothing. Then after a minute or so of loading, I finally got what looks like a good ophthalmological dictionary: here is one entry: Macroaneurisma arterial retiniano (Retinal macroaneurysm): Alteración vascular retiniana fusiforme o sacular que aparece en individuos en edad senil y de predominio femenino, afectos de ateroesclerosis, hipertensión arterial, diabéticos, anemia de células falciformes, trombosis de rama venosa y enfermedades vasculares oclusivas. But when I tried to send email to , it just bounced back with a permanent error, undeliverable
20. Jaramar Opticas: diccionario del ojo del Opt. Jorge Aranda Tello, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
21. Portal da Retina: Dicionário do Olho em português (in Portuguese only)
22. Glossary in English from Ashford Advanced Eye Care in Australia. Includes these terms: Astigmatism; Closed Loop Tracking; Conventional LVC; Cornea; Diopters; Enhancement; Epithelium; Excimer laser; Glare; Haze; Haloes; Higher order aberrations; Hypertropes; Hypermetropia; Laser; LASIK; Level of your vision; Lower order aberrations; LVC; Microkeratome; Monovision; Myopes; Myopia; Open loop tracking; Overcorrection; Presbyopia; PRK; Refractive surgery; Regression; Undercorrection; Wavefront device; Wavefront map

O. Pharmaceutical, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry & Drug-related glossaries & web sites, Drugs, and Dictionaries of Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms

1 Fertilitext by ProCare Pharmacy
2 Stedmans Pharmaceutical Terminology NOT FREE!? :-(
3 PDR.het, general pharma info
4 Pharmaceutical Lexicon http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php from UK-based pharma-lexicon.com,: medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations from their database of over 48,000 entries - there is a Spanish page here but when I tried to open it all I got was an error message: Warning: Failed opening 'pages/medicaldictionary.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd/vhosts/medilexicon.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 316

Search For

Medical Abbreviations Scientific Articles

See also http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php

5 A guide to medical abbreviations, Medline Pro
6 Pharm-Lexicon's Medical Abbreviation Database with links to articles in PubMed which allows access to abstracts. It claims to be a dictionary of more than 56,000 medical, biomedical and healthcare acronyms and abbreviations
7 Drug Interactions from mothernature.com
8 Pharmaceutical Glossary from PharmInfo.com - this page would NOT load for me on Sept. 22, 2002. Dead link?
9 informative 9-11.com pages on Pharmacy Resources, including Clinical Trials, Drug Information, New Drug Approval, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, prescription assistance, Online Pharmacies, Organizations, etc. by the California Public Safety Academy
10 RxList: the Internet Drug Database in English and (some) Spanish; see also the top 200 at http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm
11 Internet Drug Index RXlist.com from About.com (same site as #8 above)
10 Drug Information Association, Technical Term Translation Table: but this page would NOT load for me on Sept. 20, 2002. Dead link?
11 Drug Information: Find information about more than 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications
12 U.S. Pharmacopeia, Pharmaceutical and Drug Standards & Drug Information, but no glossary.
13 Novartis: Health, Care and Well Being. Pharmaceutical info on their products.
14 Pharmacology Glossary from AMSA, BU
15 UNCChem Glossary, Useful Materials Glossary, etc. from The Shodor Foundation: a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education
16 search engine for the Drug Information Journal keywords starting with Volume 30 (1996) Issue #1 & all subsequent issues
17 ChemFinder: Glossary and search for chemical names & molecular formulas. Database & Lookup
18 RxList - The Internet Drug Index from Rxlist.com
19 Novartis: Health, Care & Well Being. Pharmaceutical info on their products. Article entitled Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in type 2 Diabetes. But no Glossary
20 ANDA, FDA, Drug Act. Yuk, it's in PDF format, so you can FORGET this one.
21 portal for pharmacology issues as of 11-23-01, this page would NOT LOAD for me, all I got was error message: Error Occurred While Processing Request; Windows NT error number 2 occurred. I could get NO part of the site to load.
22 Glossary of medicines from the MedicinesCompany.com
23 foundhealth.com - Health; Education; Patient Education; Pharmaceuticals: from Avandia Rosiglitazone Maleate; CancerLinks Drug Search, and Prevacid Online to RxMed and the Ted Noffs Foundation
24 General Glossary of Organic Chemistry from Eberlein
25 Prozac Glossary: a glossary of terms related to depressive disorders and their medical treatment
26 Dictionary of Chemistry/Dicionário de Química (Diccionario de Química), English-Português-Español; by Rainer Hopperdietzel, Rio de Janeiro
27 International Chemical Safety Cards, Program on Chemical Safety; in English & many other languages; http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ipcs/icstart.html#hints
28 Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1998) from Active transport & Address-message concept to Xenobiotic; Suite à http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/medchem/ix.html plica lacrimalis
29 IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology; unfortunately, to browse or search this compendium, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader
30 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
31 Dicionário Farmacéutico? I tried & tried to load http://www.rafe.com.br/dicfarmaceutico/dicio.asp without success. Then I tried just http://www.rafe.com.br and clicking on Dicionário Farmacéutico button. That worked, but it took me half an hour to find that there is NO listing for “augmentina ”or “aumentina ”since you can only get the FIRST half of the A's by clicking to that part of the alphabet. Very awkward, frustrating and difficult to navigate. é muito difícil navegar neste site.
32 Portuguese-language site: Tipos de Medicamentos com a letra A from Banco de Fármacos (each letter of the alphabet is a separate page)
33 in Dutch: Woordenboek Organische Chemie (see link in Dutch section below)
34 Mosby's Drug Consult Top 200; a compilation of the top 200 generic drugs
35 Excellent Four-Language Drugs Glossary in English, Spanish, French and German. “una amplia serie de términos en español sobre las drogas y sus diversas implicaciones en la salud y el comportamiento humano, junto con los términos equivalentes en alemán, inglés y francés“
36 Guide des Equivalents Thérapeutiques, le Médicament: Spécialités pharmaceutiques par Dénomination Commune Internationale (DCI) Mise à jour trimestrielle. L'Assurance Maladie, en mettant en ligne ce guide, a la volonté d'en généraliser la diffusion à tous les médecins
37 Safetychecker; from Accolate (Zafirlukast) to Zyrtec: Most prescribed drugs; click on each name for details.
38 Répertoire Commenté des Médicaments du Centre Belge d'Information Pharmacothérapeutique
39 Galaxy, Specific Drugs and Medications list
40 Online Drug Source: Pharmaceutical Products, including Narcotic Analgesics; Penicillins and Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors; etc.
41 Drug Depletions and Interactions List; but only about 55 of the drugs listed here are clickable links. The rest, just the name of a pharmaceutical product,not linked.
42 U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; includes National Drug Code Directory; New Prescription Drug Approvals, and links to Major Drug Information Pages
43 Permabond Chemical and Adhesives Glossary; from Acceptance Test, Accelerator, and Acrylic Adhesive through Vulcanization, Weight Change, Wicking, Working Strength and Yield Value
44 pharmaceuticals biochemistry page from Merck pharmaceutical company; in English, German, Spanish and French. But every single word that I tried to query just gave me this: "Your search produced no results. Please revise your search query and try again."
45 Aventinus - A Multilingual Term Database by Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis. Covers illegal drugs, drug trade routes, drug dealers, etc.
46 Medicine Info: an Index of Medicine Trade names from Electronic Doctor (w.edoc.co.za - South Africa)
47 Glossary of Terms Used In Medicinal Chemistry from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry Section. English only? Some of these scientists are French....
chemistry-related words, chemical compounds, organic chemistry; in Dutch, English, German, & French
49 Pharmacia Canada; bilingual site but no glossary you can browse through;
50 Medical Abbreviations (with links)
51 Het Farmacotherapeutisch Kompas van het College voor zorgverzekeringen - A Dutch language pharmaeceutical site with lookup
52 Glossary to Accompany the Guidelines for the Pharmaceutical Industries or Preparation of Submissions to the PBAC: from Absolute risk (rate) to Willingness to pay. It's Australian
53 El Glosario de Terminos, an English-Spanish Glossary: from Actual Acquisition Cost and Additional Copay to Wholesale Acquisition Cost
54 O Glossário de termos, and English-Portuguese glossary: from Actual Acquisition Cost and Additional Copay to Wholesale Acquisition Cost
55 Pharma Selecta, a Dutch-languge pharmaceutical site with Glossary (Index van sleutelwoorden)
56 article by G. Lacchia, MD about Toxicology and Chemistry Resources (2004)
57 search ChemIDPlus - Enter the name or registry number to search for chemicals (from the U.S. National Library of Medicine)
58 PHARMAVISTA GLOBAL DICTIONARY This web page contains dictionary entries of pharmavista database; Unfortunately, clicking on one of the word links here will NOT forward you to the global index of pharmavista!!!! Why not? because you need a password to access the databases at www.pharmavista.ch
59 This page http://members.tripod.com/~r_hopper/ip_s.htm does not seem to exist!!
60 Translations of chemistry related words Five languages are included: Dutch, English, German, French and Italian. It's part of the Dutch Dictionary on Organic Chemistry.
61 Clinical Trials website with an extensive glossary in five languages
62 Spanish and English Pharmaceutical site from the General Spanish Council of Pharmacists with statistics, pharmacological information, new medicines, etc. Mostly about pharmacy industry in Spain.
63 a listing of half a dozen Pharmacy Dictionaries> from yourdictionary.com - also listed are Psychology Dictionaries and many other kinds, but not medical
64 Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, unfortunately, they require you to REGISTER and log in.


P. Psychology, Psychiatry & Mental Health pages, & Down Syndrome, Autism
1 Children's Mental Health Terms
2 On-line Mental Health
3 Cognitive Science Dictionary Univ of Alberta, Canada
4 Psychiatry and Neurology Glossary by John F. Abess, M.D.
5 Suicide, Grief, Ethics - Lifeguard
6 Glossary from Anxiety Disorders Association of America
7 The ASAP Dictionary of Anxiety and Panic Disorders
8 Glossary of Children's Mental Health Terms
9 Mental Health Encyclopedia from mentalhealth.com
10 Neurotrauma · Law Nexus Glossary of Terms; brain injury, spinal injury, neurotrauma. From abducens nerve to white matter.
11 Phobia Names List
12 Social & Behavioral Sciences Encyclopedia from iesbs.com
13 Suicide Terminology - Tripod, LifeGuard
14 Health and Social Services - Glossary of Acronyms (British terms only, no North American terminology). By Martin Rathfelder, Manchester, UK
16 Mental Health Glossary from www.medhelp.org
17 Online Dictionary of Mental Health from human-nature.com -- Ian Pitchford and Robert M. Young - Last updated October, 1998! Depression Condition Center
18 My WebMD.com on Depression
19 CODT: “Cooperative Online Dictionary of Trauma;” A guide to terms relating to psychological reactions to extreme events.
20 Länkar: som vi tycker är intressanta och stimulerande. A Swedish site with LINKS and info on autism (mostly in Swedish language)
21 English links from the Finnish Information Center on Mental Retardation: includes links to sites on: Aarskog Syndrome; Abidi X-linked Mental Retardation Syndrome; Åkesson syndrome; Acrodysostosis (Arkless-Graham syndrome); Catania type Acrofacial dysostosis; Addison-Schilder syndrome; Alagille Syndrome; Albright hereditary osteodystrophy; Anisomastia; Arakawa syndrome; Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome; and hundreds more.

Q. Rheumatology, Arthritis, and Osteoarthritis sites
1 Arthritis info. A huge selections of useful LINKS from NOAH-Health
2 Arthritis from NOAH-Health. Same as previous link
3 Unversity of Birmingham, Dept. of Rheumatology, U.K. - No Glossaary
4 Glucosamine site in English from the Netherlands


R. Sleep and Sleep Disorders - trastornos del sueño
1 Sleep Apnea Glossary from www.sleep-apnoea-trust.org : from acromegaly to uvulopalatopharyngoplasty
2 Everything you wanted to know about sleep but were too tired to ask, www.sleepnet.com
3 Sleep Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations from www.sleepnet.com
4 Sleep Dictionary, including: Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome, anticonvulsant, bimaxillary advancement, bruxism, eneuresis, microsleep, hypersomnia, vigilance testing and wakefulness
5 About Sleep Disorders; good information, but not a glossary, exactly. A very commercial site, in my opinion. Ever since I visited this web site, I get twice as much SPAM as before.
6 sleep disorders/un diccionario de los trastornos del sueño, (in Spanish)


S. Trauma, traumatology, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
1 technical, medical, traumatology, by Health Partners, Regions Hospital
2 David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder)
3 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, medicine, psychiatry
4 Trauma Management: Advanced Cardiac Life Support; Advanced Trauma Life Support; Initial Orders for the Trauma Patient.
5 see listing for Cooperative Online Dictionary of Trauma under “Psychology, Psychiatry & Mental Health”

T. Miscellaneous English language Medical glossaries, Dictionaries & Encyclopedia

1. an excellent medical-technical dictionary but a difficult site to navigate: each huge page has only a stark heading such as: "Dictionary Contents: AS" and no clue as to how your browser might gain access to other pages, other parts of the alphabet.
2. MedFriendly: easy-to-read, jargon-free information on many on topics, including neurology, psychology, dermatology & other medical areas. Message Board also accessible.
3. glossary ` of Hantavirus terms from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5. Online medical dictionary Medifocus©; a medical dictionary by Category Listing or by Alphabetical listing
6. Medical Statistical Clinical Glossary
7. Medical Dictionary - definitions of medical terms and terminology, including diseases, drugs, and fields of medicine. The medical dictionary is available only to Dictionary.com Premium members. BEWARE OF THIS DECEITFUL WEB SITE! It appears to be a thinly disguised commercial site with one clear objective: to SELL YOU DRUGS by any means at their disposal: Pop-ups, banners, questionnaires and come-ons. Their dictionary is copied/borrowed directly from The CancerWEB Project, British spelling and all.
8. Fungal Glossary (you have to click on the word "Glossary"
9. sinformative 9-11.com pages on Anesthesiology, Anatomy, Cardiology, Dermatology, Disease Information, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Family Medicine, Gastro-enterology, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Neurosurgery Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Oncology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Surgery, Urology, etc. by the California Public Safety Academy
10 Medical Dictionary from South Africa: www.edoc.co.za/medilink... believe it or not, I actually went to each of the 26 alphabetical pages of this dictionary site to count the key words and see if there were any new and interesting terms I had not seen before. I counted 3,508 terms.. but there may be a few more, since I could not get the page for the letter “J” to load at all..
11. Abbreviated Medical Dictionary, histo.org
12 Medical Encyclopedia; The World Book Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center Medical Encyclopedia & hosted by WebMD, Inc.
13 Medical Library from HealthDiscovery.com, including Injuries Encyclopedia, Surgical Procedures, Medical Tests, Medline, Clinical Trials, and Combined Health Information data base
14 Pathology - Ed Friedlander's excellent site
15 Spa Glossary
16 FastHealth Dictionary & Search. Based on Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary Electronic Edition © 1997. Over a hundred short pages such as http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary/index_h-hel.php - Impossible to download it.
17 Human fertility Glossary
18 Medical Imaging Glossary (PDF!!) Please BOYCOTT PDF format! It's just Adobe's attempt to dominate.
19 Radiology Info: Glossary of Terms
20 Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology(CHORUS); a hypertext medical reference. More than 1100 documents describe diseases, anatomy, and radiologic findings
21 Medical Eponyms List
22 Graylab - UK, Medical Dictionary, quite extensive & impressive!
23 Talaria Medical Glossary: from Ablative surgery & Acupuncture to tolerance & TENS
24 Medical Dictionary from the Histiocytosis Association of America; emphasis on hemotology and oncology terms & medications. See also www.histio.org/association/library/index.shtml - Online Library
25 Physiolibrary: Use PhysioBob, a cybernetic search agent to find the information you are looking for. Clicking all the database options, PhysioBob will search over 1,800 medical databases for you
26 Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary UK
27 Glossary, Acronyms, & Index for Ask Dr. Stoll
28 Marrow Donor Glossary from the DHHS
29 Medical Dictionary; A Glossary of medical and technical terms (separate pages for each letter of the alphabet)
30 Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary from intelihealth.com
31 Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary from intelihealth.com - a much too-complex URL !!
URL is http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9276/9276.html?k=navx408x9276
the content is excellent, but the site software is tricky, unreliable, annoying; it crashes.
32 Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary; (different URL) from HealthGate Data Corporation?
33 Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary; (yet another URL)
34 Dictionary of Ecological Epidemiology edited by Jonathan Swinton, UK
35 Reproductive Health | Glossary of Epidemiology Terms
36 CDC Glossary of Terms from the Special Pathogen Branch, disease control & prevention
37 < A HREF="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/glossary.htm"> Special Pathogens Branch: All About Hantavirus, a Glossary of Terms
38 MedicineNet Medical Dictionary, quite EXTENSIVE! (Smart Medicine)
39 MedicineNet Medical Dictionary, le même truc; same as #41
40 Medical Dictionary from MedicineNet.com
41 MedTerms Medical Dictionary from MedecineNet.com; with definitions
42 MedTerms Medical Dictionary ii
43 Merck Manual Home Edition www.merckhomeedition.com, now enhanced with photos, animations, videos, pronunciations, illustrations, & a comprehensive search engine See also http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual about the The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Mark H. Beers, M.D., and Robert Berkow, M.D., Editors
44 The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth Edition
45 Xrefer.com searches reference dictionaries, including the Concise Medical Dictionary from Oxford University Press
46 Orthopedic Terms for Independent Medical Exams
47 Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics www.medmedia.com/orthoo/1111.htm (go directly to alphabetical listing)
48 MPIP Medical Dictionary Lookup: lymph*ema returns the definitions which start with 'lymph' and end with 'ema'.
49 All About Multiple Sclerosis, Glossary from Paul Jones
50 Multiple Sclerosis glossary from MSNews.org
51 Nancy Pope's Multiple Sclerosis Glossary,International MS Support Foundation
52 Belgian League for Chronic Inflammatory Tissue Diseases in English or Dutch (see glossary in English at /www.cibliga.com/en/term.html)
53 Medic8 Online Medical Dictionary; also Clinical Tools; Clinical Guidelines; Medical Databases; Medical`Journals; Medic8 Search. You cannot browse this dictionary,you can only plug in one term and click on the Search button.
54 Medical word list - mtdesk.com see also http://www.mtdesk.com/frame.php?frame=glossary (Medical & Surgery Glossary)
55 MT desk, Alphabetical Index of Terminology N-Z - Medical Equipment & Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
55 MT desk, New Drugs/Equipment/Procedures/ Terminology
56 National Library of Medicine, PubMed listing: Enter one or more search terms, or click Preview/Index for advanced searching.
57 Nuclear medicine Glossary from neonflamingo.net
58 Alphabetical List of Specific Diseases/Disorders with extensive information available on each one.. But it's not exactly a glossary... by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. You have to click on the name of a disorder, then remember what you clicked on so you can do a Ctrl-F search for that word in the extensive & voluminous info screen you get..
59 Your Online Medical Dictionary: OMD is a searchable dictionary hosted by CancerWEB It contains terms from biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology
60 Terminology Commonly Used in Nuclear Medicine (very short glossary)
61 Acoustic Disorders Glossary from the NIH
62 Glossary of Anti-Aging Terms
63 Health Information Glossary from the NIH
64 Organ Donor Glossary from the US govt?
65 Physiotherapy glossary, Australian Ozonline: DEAD LINK on 12-23-01, says André
66 Glossary by Access North - Disability Community of The North (2 pp)
67 Disability Related Terminology Glossary. Unfortunately it's in PDF format and it caused my Adobe Reader to jam and lock up repeatedly. It gave a frozen screen and a “File I/O Error"
68 Search the University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook, a Virtual Hospital®
69 Epidemiology an in-depth dictionary of terms & easy to understand terminology. UK
70 Medical Center Library - Dictionaries, Abbreviations, Acronyms & Initialisms; & MeSH Thesaurus from the University of Kentucky, Medical Center Library
71 MRI Glossary by FONAR.com; un glosario sobre terminología de resonancia magnética
72 Hepatitis (Liver Disease) Hepatitis-Central

Search 2,000+ Pages of Hepatitis C information at Hepatitis-Central

73 Glossary of Terms for Hepatobiliary Diseases - the University of Chicago Hospitals

74 Glossary of Terms about hepatitis: from Acute Hepatitis to White blood cells
75 Hepatitis C glossary: the glossary is rather short but the site is quite useful
76 Bogus Medical Dictionary from Business.com This is a very commercial site with sales pitches. Its content is literally borrowed from the Cancer Web Medical Dictionary. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne© Copyright 1997-2004 - The CancerWEB Project. ) This is mainly an online discount pharmacy store.
77 Poisons & Antidotes - from Botanical.com. 1942, posted as historical information only
78 Disease Reference - MedlinePlus
79 National Library of Medicine - MedlinePlus http://medlineplus.gov
80 NLM's Medlineplus Dictionaries
81 Medical Encyclopedia: the Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Page last updated 14 February 2001
82 orthopedic acronyms OAF
83 Physiotherapy Glossary from physio.web
84 Office of Rare Diseases: Terms and Definitions: A - E from the NIH
85 Office of Rare Diseases: Terms and Definitions: F - M from the NIH
86 Office of Rare Diseases: Terms & Definitions: N - R from the NIH
87 endometriosis glossary from thriveonline (only about 2 pages)
88 Terms for Preparing Consent Forms Stanford
89 Long-Term Care Glossary, AIU
90 AMA Insight Medical Glossary- AMA
91 Glossary of the American Medical Association? But it's really a list of accreditation, certification, licensure terms, etc. It is NOT a medical glossary in the traditional sense
92 Medical Terms- ASGE manual
93 Blue Cross/Blue Shield Glossary online
94 University of Maryland's Comprehensive Glossary of Medical Terms. Excellent.
95 All the Virology on the www, a Virology Glossary from Tulane University: www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/ATVGlossary.html#a
96 Encyberpedia in English, Medtarget
97 enter a keyword in the search field above, select library and hit the “Go" button... or browse the glossary terms in alphabetical order by clicking on the letterbar.
98 Excessive Sweating Resource a glossary; from Antiperspirants to Titanium Clips
99 Patient's guide (glossary) - each letter of the alphabet is a separate page. Canadian
100 Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology UK's MB Lab (John Lackie & Julian Dow)
start page is http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html
101 The Internet Medical Education A Glossary for Physicians and other Health Care Providers
102 MedFact Medical Dictionary or glossary http://www.medfacts.com/glossary.htm
103 Medical Encyclopedia Extensive collection of basic info on medicine & biology.
104 The BioSpace Glossary - Defining the Terms that Define Biotechnology - the most up-to-date glossary related to biotechnology
105 BioTech Life Sciences U of Texas, search in dictionary
106 Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology from Harcourt - includes Cardiology, Hematology, Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Radiology, Social Sciences, Surgery, & Veterinary Medicine (see also Harcourt dictionaries in the French Language section below)
107 DrKoop.com's Medical Encyclopedia
108 National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings
109 AcroMed -- a computer-generated database of biomedical acronyms and the associated long forms extracted from of Medline abstracts
110 Physician databases, written in medicalese language. Lay persons are duly warned not to “waste time” here.
111 Chronic Fatigue Glossary - Natl Centers for Infectious Diseases; it's only a few pages...
112 Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare Unnaturalistic Methods & Quackery
113 A comprehensive glossary of technical terms used in the mediweb. Created by Medical Online. From Acute Pain: Allodynia, and Alkaloid to Tomogram, Ulnar and Volar
114 Family Practice Handbook (Virtual Hospital) One of the most complete references on the Web
115 Frontiers in Bioscience Database links, encyclopedia and journal
116 Medical Spellcheck Online, Spellex.com, in English
117 ViaHealth Medical Glossary - ViaHealth Disease and Wellness Home
118 HairFacts: commercial-free hair removal facts for consumers. From Aavexx to Zoulla.
119 Perfusion Technology Glossary
120 A Dictionary of PRACTICAL MATERIA MEDICA By John Henry CLARKE, M.D. - Site does not tell us ANYthing about this voluminous compendium; to me, Andre, it appears to be a 19th century homeopathic dictionary
121 Diseases & Medical Terms in Old Documents by Edmund West - to help interpret older medical records and unfamiliar medical terms; from Abcess and Addison's Disease to Winter Fever and Yellow Fever. Basically, an old medical dictionary from mid 20th century?
122 occupational therapy Glossary in English, French, German & Spanish Definitions from the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. Unfortunately it's in PDF format, which is rather useless.. you Save As, copy or paste anything from it.
123 free-online-medical-dictionary? ? Forget this worthless site! In spite of its name, there is no dictionary, no medical glossary here.. only spam, advertising, weight loss hype, penis enlargement... you get the picture. Don't waste your time with this web page.
124 kidshealth.org/kid/word KidsHealth: a Glossary of Medical Words explained in language any 5th grader can understand, from ADHD and abdominals to yawn and zoonosis... __
125 Downloadable medical dictionary (XTerm Medical Dictionary). This is an e-dictionary.
126 Medical Dictionary from Aflatoxins to Wild Type
127 MT desk, different web page; more mtdesk.com terminology
128 BabyCenter® Glossary from Afterbirth and alopecia areata to zygote intrafallopian transfer. Seems clear and concise to me. One page for each letter of the alphabet.
129 www.mtdesk.c