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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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