Apgar to Zygote. What's in a Word?
Dateline: 09/11/99
A - Z. What's in a word? Sometimes its difficult to find out! Too often the medical
terms you find while reading about a child's health or illness aren't listed in the
standard dictionary. The links below will connect you with Medical Glossaries and
Dictionaries. From Apgar to Zygote... you can find it here:
General Medical Glossaries
Medical
Glossary
From the American Medical Association (AMA), Health Insight.
Medical
Dictionary Index
from MedicineNet.com.
Medical Glossary
From Kaiser Permanente.
Mirriam
Webster
Medical Dictionary from InteliHealth.
Multilingual
Glossary
Technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages commissioned by The
European Commission(DG III) and
executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of applied
Linguistics.
The On-line Medical Dictionary
From CancerWeb.
Disease Specific Glossaries
AIDS Glossary
Glossary of Medical, Statistical and Clinical Research Terminology by Carlton Hogan and
University of MN.
Allergy
Glossary
From Health on The Net Foundation.
Diabetes
Dictionary
Prepared by the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases, and NIH.
Glossary
From the Office of Rare Diseases/ NIH.
Glossary
of Genetic Terms
From the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Glossary from Pharm Info Net
Explanation of medical and pharmacological terminology.
The Glossary of
Traumatic Brain Injury Terms
Includes definitions for over 200 brain injury related terms from HDI's Brain Injury
Glossary.from the Centre for Neuro Skills.
Glossary
From the Organ & Tissue Donation Initiative.
Glossary -
Children's Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors
From the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation and A Starting Point for Pediatric Neuro
oncology.
Glossary of Terms
From the Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation - Stanford University Medical Center.
Glossary of
Terms related to Radiology
From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Glossary of Vision
Terms
From National Institutes of Health/ National Eye Institute.
Glossary of Terms for
Hepatobiliary Diseases
From the University of Chicago Hospitals.
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