MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY



MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Definitions:

Medical terminology is the study of words used to communicate facts and ideas particular to medicine and is chiefly concerned with the present use and meaning of such words. (Davies’ Medical Terminology: a guide to current usage by John Loveday) W15 L897d 1991.

Call Numbers for Browsing

W13; W15, QV13

 Books:

Dorland's dentistry word book for medical transcriptionists . series editor, Sharon B. Rhodes ; edited & reviewed by Arlaine Walsh. St Louis, Mo. ; London : Saunders, c2003. (WO 15 D711 2003)

Mastering healthcare terminology. Betsy J. Shiland. St. Louis : Mosby, c2003. (W 15 S556m 2003)

Medical terms & abbreviations. 2nd ed. Springhouse, Pa. : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. (W 15 M489 2002)

A quick reference to medical terminology. by Juanita Davies. Albany, NY : Delmar Thomson Learning, 2002. (W 15 D256q 2002)

Vera Pyle's current medical terminology 8th ed. by Health Professions Institute. Modesto, Calif. : Health Professions Institute, 2000. (W 13 V473 2000)

PubMed Abstracts: These are found on the PubMed site on the Internet:

 Wojczak A.

Medical education terminology.

Med Teach. 2002 Jul;24(4);357.

Caggiati A, Bergan JJ, Gloviczki P, Jantet G, Wendell-Smith CP, Partsch H.

Nomemclature of the veins of the lower limbs: an international interdisciplinary consensus statement.

J Vasc Surg. 2002 Aug;36(2):416-22.

Taylor CM, Wall DW, Taylor CL.

Appraisal of doctors: problems with terminology and a philosophical tension.

Med Educ.2002 Jul;36(7): 667-71.

Wang J, Wang X, Zhao Z, Huang Z, Huang Q, Ding J.

[A new proposal for uniform hepatic segmental anatomic nomenclature]

Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi. 2002 Apr;10(2):115. Chinese. No abstract available.

Internet Links:

Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in the nine European languages



Database and list of technical and popular medical terms, glossaries, multilingual lemma collection.

Terminology Guide Picks



Veterinary medicine terminology, articles and resources.

Medical Glossaries and Dictionaries



Find Healthcare Workers site with information on physical therapy essentials, articles and resources, abbreviations and terms used in medicine.

Database for physical therapies and health and fitness Terminology



The Medical Terminology website of the English Centre is designed primarily for students majoring in dentistry, medicine, and nursing. The purpose of this website is to help students recognize technical terms and later actively use this vocabulary.

Medical terminology and Cancer



Guide to Medical Terminology and Cancer Glossary and Internet resources for Cancer

NDI Terminology.



Glossary of terminology by authors of the articles. Some paraphrased from The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine.

MedTerms Medical Dictionary



MedTerms online medical dictionary is the medical reference for , containing easy-to-understand explanations of over 16,000 medical terms. Quick access to hard-to-spell medical definitions.

Medical Terminology Web



Links to help you determine the formation and definition of medical terms. English for traditional Chinese Medicine. Nursing, Dental Students.

Med Terminology



Medical terminology, Internet medical resources and other medical vocabularies.

AIDS Glossary



AIDS info: offering information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Research, and glossary of HIV/AIDS-related terms.

Surgical / Medical new terms



Alphabetic index of terminology, MT Desk: the essential resource for medical transcriptionists. It is an information site with access to PubMed and other search engines.

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