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Online medical dictionaries

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OMD is a searchable synoptic dictionary which contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. All entries are brief, transparent, cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net. This, on the other hand, makes it slightly unpleasant and distracting to read. It is freely available.









All these links provide access to the same medical dictionary as the address above. Additionally, they offer pharmaceutical company search, medical abbreviations, acronyms, hospitals and associations. Plus they include medical news and other searches for medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professionals.

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MedTerms Dictionary on MedicineNet website provides entry search leading to web pages with miscellaneous topics. One can find definitions, signs, symptoms, medications of over 2,500 terms exploitable for both students of medicine and laymen. Most definitions are accompanied by pictures. On the whole, the website is user-friendly, interactive, comprehensive and a reliable source of health and medical information.

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This is a free online medical dictionary search engine for very brief and short definitions of medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment, health conditions, medical devices, specialty terms and medical abbreviations.

A very minimalist layout enables quick and easy search. Moreover, one can find links to related articles as well as a link to “Medical News and Information” from various fields of medicine. Highly recommendable is the excellent well-arranged “Medical Conditions Glossary”.

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Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary is an online resource for medical terminology definitions which is relatively fast, easy, and free. The layout of the first search page is colourful and slightly chaotic.

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The Free Dictionary is a very useful online resource. The main source of Medical dictionary is Houghton Mifflin’s The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary where you can gain free access to authoritative descriptions of medical conditions, medications, anatomical terms, noted medical personalities and much more. Being free of jargon the dictionary is intended for all healthcare consumers, students, professionals, etc. The strong point of the definitions is that they contain phonetic transcription, word forms, information on word origin, etc. The site enables search of the particular term in further Internet sources - Wikipedia, Columbia encyclopaedia, Thesaurus, etc.

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Aetna InteliHealth's is one of the most trusted sources, including Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Aetna InteliHealth has become one of the leading online consumer-friendly health information companies in the world. This page subsumes Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Medical terms defined here include details about pronunciation and structured definitions.

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Contains useful links to various online dictionaries. The list of them is,

however, not very well structures and easy to survey.



InfoVISUAL is an excellent website with pictures of the human body accompanied by descriptive terms in English. This link is highly recommendable for students of English for Medical Purposes.

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This site covers archaic medical terminology, terms that can be difficult to understand from a brief entry in a modern dictionary, descriptions of the more common causes of death in the past, symbols, abbreviations, qualifications; some terms that have become everyday language, but have a different meaning when used by doctors or had a different meaning in the past.

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is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. The entries inform about particular medical phenomena plus provide the biography of the person associated with them. The most commonly used eponyms are used as main entries. Current drawback is that many biographical entries are still incomplete.

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