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THESAURI, GLOSSARIES, DICTIONARIES
MEDICINE
Subject-specific thesauri and glossaries are listed elsewhere. Click here to access.
BIOME http://biome.ac.uk/ Internet Resources in the Health and Life Sciences, part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. Access to quality resources in agriculture, food, forestry, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, nursing, dentistry, biological research, veterinary sciences, the natural world, botany, zoology, and more.
CHID Combined Health Information Database http://chid.nih.gov/ CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the US Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
Extoxnet A network of University of California-Davis, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, Cornell University, and the University of Idaho providing information on toxicology, with emphasis on pesticides. The home page is at http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/ Two related resources of interest are the glossary of pesticide-related terminology at http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/tibs/glossary.htm and the list of pesticide names at http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/tibs/pestgrp.htm
FreeBooks4Doctors http://fb4d.com/ Dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. If you wish to be informed about new free books, you can subscribe to the Book Alert service http://fb4d.com/fb/alert.htm
Gray's Anatomy (1918 edition) http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Searchable on-line version.
HerbMed http://www.amfoundation.org/herbmed.htm Evidence-based herbal database.
MedBioWorld http://www.sciencekomm.at/ A collection of 25,000 links to journals, associations, databases, publishers, glossaries and other resources in the biological and medical sciences.
Medical journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ Full text access to over 650 medical journals, including some very prestigious titles. In some cases free access is delayed until 6 months to 2 years after publication.
Medical Statistics http://www.dianthus.co.uk/statistics/index.htm Comprehensive definitions and explanations of a selected number of statistical terms
MT Desk http://www.mtdesk.com/index.htm A resource for medical transcriptionists, with its own word lists and links to many other terminological and general medical resources.
Pharma-Lexicon http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/index.php http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/index.php Lists the most popular medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations. It also includes a good number of foreign language acronyms. The site also includes a searchable database of Pharmaceutical Companies and lists of hospitals, schools of pharmacy, journals, health ministries and more, as well as access to drug searches and the Merck Index.
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Rx List http://www.rxlist.com/ http://www.rxlist.com/ Index of trade and generic drug names.
Whonamedit.com http://www.whonamedit.com/ Biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. "It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons."