name="Medical Dictionaries">Medical Dictionaries |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2618">Dictionary
of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations. (2005) -
class=small>http://online.statref.com/TOC.aspx?grpalias=AZHIN&FxId=38 |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2578">Glossary
of Genetics Terms -
class=small>http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Glossary/ |
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This short searchable glossary with links to related research centers,
projects, and other genomic and genetic resources is a product of the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2629">Health and
Wellness Resource Center -
class=small>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC?locID=uarizona_main |
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Patient and consumer health information. Provides browsable access to Gale
encyclopedia of medicine, Medical & health information directory, Mosby's
medical, nursing & allied health dictionary, the USPDI, vol. 2: advice for
the patient, and more. |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2570">Life
Science Dictionary -
class=small>http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html |
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Contains terms deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology
and genetics. Also has some terms relating to ecology, limnology, pharmacology,
toxicology and medicine. Does not contain common or exotic animals. Includes
medically and |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=9356">Medical
Layman's Terms. An A to Z List of Medical Terms -
class=small>http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/laymans/ |
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Maintained by the Arizona Health Sciences Library. An easy-to-use list of
lay terms and the equivalent technical terms. |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=8251">MedTerms.com
Medical Dictionary -
class=small>http://www.medterms.com//Main/hp.asp |
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Provides simple definitions for 16,000+ words; also has sections on diseases
and conditions, signs and symptoms, procedures and tests, medications, and
healthy living. |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=8252">Merriam-Webster
Medical Dictionary -
class=small>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html |
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Provides simple and advanced search options, online help, explanatory notes
and an in-depth guide to pronounciation, The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
is from Inteli-Health, Inc., a site that includes advertising. |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=10211">Multilingual
Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages
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class=small>http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html |
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A very useful, search- and browsable online medical dictionary. Commissioned
by The European Commission(DG III) and executed by Heymans Institute of
Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of Applied Linguistics.
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2470">Stedman's
Medical Dictionary. (2006) -
class=small>http://online.statref.com/default.asp?grpalias=AZHIN |
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Look up definitions, pronunciations, and preferred hyphenations for over
100,000 medical terms and review more than 800 images. Compatible with most
major word processing and page layout programs. Lets you check any word or
phrase, or word-part. Steadma |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=8254">Terms and
Definitions -
class=small>http://ord.aspensys.com/asp/resources/glossary_a-e.asp |
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From the Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, these
terms and their definitions have been developed from glossaries prepared by (1)
U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, (2) National Institutes of
Health's Understand |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=8529">Whonamedit.com
- http://www.whonamedit.com/ |
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Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=8255">Word! A
Glossry of Medical Words -
class=small>http://kidshealth.org/kid/word/word.html |
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Definitions for kids. Check out this virtual glossary for lots of
easy-to-read definitions. |
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name="Non-Medical Dictionaries">Non-Medical
Dictionaries |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=10373">Glossary
of Common Library Terms -
class=small>http://www.lib.utah.edu/science/glossary.html |
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A good guide to library jargon |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2573">Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary -
class=small>http://search.eb.com/dictionary |
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This hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client interface
for accessing the various Webster’s dictionary services on the Internet
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2592">Oxford
English Dictionary (OED) Online -
class=small>http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/articles/dbfind?shortname=oed |
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Complete text of the OED's 20-volume Second Edition and 3-volume Additions
Series. |
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href="http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/wlink_gateway.cfm?ID=2567">Roget’s II
: The New Thesaurus -
class=small>http://www.bartleby.com/62/ |
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This site provides full-text searching of a 1911 edition of Roget’s
Thesaurus, updated in 1991, containing approximately 40,000 words and phrases.
Because the thesaurus dates from 1911, modern users will find some of the
entries out-of-date or obscure.. |
