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MAJOR MEDICAL DIRECTORIES AND DICTIONARIES
Directories and Dictionaries - Medical & Biological
Directories and Dictionaries - General
Libraries
and Reference Centres
Translation Appliances
Directories and Dictionaries: Medical & Biological
Biotech
Life Science Dictionary
(Indiana Institute for Molecular
and Cell Biology,
Indiana University,
USA) Includes, biochemistry,
biotechnology, botany, cell
biology, ecology, genetics, limnology, medicine, toxicology.
BUBL
Medical List
BUBL provides a medical, health and medicine subject-based service to
academic and research groups.
CliniWeb
Retain by the Oregon Health Sciences Library includes resources containing
clinical information for health care education or practice.
Dictionary
of Cell Biology
(Institute for Biomedical and
Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK)
Contains definitions of terms used in modern biology literature.
Dictionary
of Demographic and Reproductive Health Terminology
(The Population Information Network (POPIN), United Nations Economic and
Social Council
)
Dictionary
of Epidemiology
University of Cambridge, UK)
Includes definitions of a
mainly ecological outlook.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENES AND GENOMES - Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Glossary
of Genetic Terms
(US National Institutes
of Health)
GLOSSARY
OF NUCLEAR TERMS - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency
Harrison's
Online
The worlds most trusted database of medicine.
Hardin
Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
HUMAN
GENE MAP - National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library
of Medicine, NIH
Human Anatomy, Interactive Atlases of - Digital images of human
anatomy; includes explanations of structures (Brain, Brain Stem, Thoracic
Organs).
Lightning
Hypertext of Disease
Pathology Informatics Inc site makes available a search and match
on gross or microscopic specimens. The database contains over 7,000 well-annotated
images. It is possible to query nearly 45,000 disease-related information
packets which includes a large number of disease entities or undertake
a gene/protein search through 57,000 molecular species.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: 17th ed 1999
Merriam
Webster Medical Dictionary
(Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Health Information)
Med
Asylum Atlas of Pathology
Stanford University's index of images referring to specific pathologies.
MEDICAL DICTIONARY - MedicineNet, Inc.
MEDICAL DICTIONARY: THE ON-LINE - Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust, U.K.
MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA - Drkoop.com, Inc. For more information see Drkoop.com
Medline: Access to 9 millions bibliographic references
Medical School Directory. The Internet
OMNI (Organizing
Medical Networked Information)
Offers access to quality Internet
resources in medicine, biosciences, healthcare and health management.
ON-LINE SCIENCE ENCYLOPEDIAS: ERIC'S TREASURE TROVES OF SCIENCE -Multimedia Encylopedia/Dictionaries
On-line
Dictionary of Mental Health
(Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies,
University of Sheffield, UK)
On-line
Medical Dictionary
(Cancerweb, UK)
Includes, definitions
on biochemistry, cell biology, medicine, molecular biology, physics,
plant biology, science and technology.
Virtual Library Biosciences, Medical
Directories and Dictionaries: General
A
Web of On-Line Dictionaries
(Robert Beard, Bucknell University, USA)
- BioTech
Life Science Dictionary
A completely searchable dictionary of over 3700 terms relating to the life sciences and medicine, and we're adding new terms all the time. The vast majority of our words aren't the kind of thing you'll find in Webster's.
Calculators Online Center - over 10,000 calculators covering every walk of life.
Common
Errors in English
Great resource for correcting those common errors in spelling, grammar
and syntax!
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Macmillan. Embryonic version: access available from workstations in the 'cam.ac.uk' domain
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service - the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' ( Mormons) genealogical site has a search engine that looks through records of over 35 million names in its Ancestral File, over 360 million names in the International Genealogical Index (Britain, North America, and Finland), and the Family History Library Catalog with records from more than 2 millions rolls of microfilm, as well as thousands of indexed Web sites.
Guide
to Grammar and Writing
Wonderful interactive resource to improve writing skills
- Phrase
Finder: A Phrases Thesaurus
A large collection of phrases in English which can be searched or browsed.
Phrase Finder - Their A-Z list of phrases
- Unit Converter - converts just about every possible measurement, every possible way. Just a few of the possibilities are: acceleration, area, luminance, mass, pressure, velocity, voltage, and volume.
WWWebster
Dictionary
(Merriam Webster, Inc., USA)
English language dictionary with a thesaurus.
Wordsmyth:
The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. Includes
a search engine enabling narrow or broad-based searches for definitions
and synonyms.
Libraries Reference Centres and Databases
- Bone
Marrow Donors Worldwide
- Project for collecting HLA phenotypes of volunteer bone marrow donors and cord blood units, and for the coordination of their worldwide distribution. Participants are 35 bone marrow donor registries from 31 countries.
Clinical Decision Making Calculators
A set of calculator spreadsheets to carry out common calculations
useful for clinical decisions or for analysing clinical data. Included
are decision calculators, disease/test relation calculators, exposure/disease
relation calculators, treatment/outcome calculators, statistical calculators.
Combined Health Information Database
European Association for Health Information and Libraries
Hosford
Muscle Tables
Detailed information about the skeletal muscles of the human body,
muscle names, each muscle's origin, action, and blood supply.
Developed by the Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) which includes international reproductive health posters and other graphic materials from around the world
M/MC
Immunization Database
Information on over 900 materials [posters, pamphlets, videos, audiotapes,
novelty items, and training materials] on immunization produced worldwide.
M/MC
Photoshare Database
Photo library, PhotoShare, thousands of photographs relating to
reproductive health activities worldwide.
National Library of Medicine (USA)
NetlinksA database of Internet resources in population, health and development.
POPINFORM(sm)
Up-to-date source of population, family planning, and related health information.
- Wordsmyth:
The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
Educational American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. Includes a search engine for definitions and synonyms.
World Wide Telephone Directories - complete index of online phone books, with over 350 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 150 countries all around the world.
French/English
Dictionary of Rare Diseases
(ORPHANET, France)
Multilingual
Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in 9 European Languages
(University of Gent, Belgium)
A
Web of On-Line Dictionaries
(Robert Beard,
Bucknell University, USA) Contains links
to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages.
On-line
Dictionaries:
A comprehensive collection of online dictionaries and grammars in many
languages as well as thesauri and multilingual and specialized dictionaries.
- The LOGOS
Dictionary
Translates user-input words and phrases to numerous languages. For the multimedia-enabled, some phrases have .wav samples! From Italy.