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On-line Medical Dictionary [Rating: 4 stars]
CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary is a great resource for simple medical term/condition look-ups and is not restricted to cancer at all. Some terms are not in the dictionary but it is pretty good for all that. This is the medical dictionary that I use.
Online scientific and medical dictionaries [Rating: 4 stars]
Pick you own favorite Medical dictionary from Mark Brownlow's huge list of links - some good, some ok, some with searches, some without and some not available.
MEDICAL DICTIONARIES [Rating: 2 stars]
Not as many dictionaries as above but it does have one or two different ones and also a link to Mark Brownlow's page.
Directory of 840 online Medical/Health Glossaries [Rating: 3 stars]
A huge directory (840 to be precise) of medical dictionaries in different languages with specific categories including a multiple sclerosis section.
MEDLINEplus: Drug Information [Rating: 4 stars]
The usual very high quality information from the NIH - shame it's not searchable - just a long list otherwise it'd be worth 5 stars.
RxList - The Internet Drug Index [Rating: 4 stars]
Part of Health Central's online pharmacy. An extensive range of drugs with monographs on each one plus patient information. A "fuzzy" search engine means that you never get back just one drug which is great if you're not entirely sure of the spelling but slightly irritating if you are. There's a lot of great stuff here but it's tricky to get at it.
Yahoo! Health [Rating: 2 stars]
Another large database of drugs with full searching facilities. Easier to use than RxList but the information on each drug, while extensive, is not as comprehensive.
WebMD: Drugs and Supplements [Rating: 2 stars]
Very similar quality of information as Yahoo's offering above.
Med Help International - Medical Glossary (1999) [Rating: 2 stars]
A general medical glossary - rather terse explanations but a large number of definitions. Internal cross-links. Not MS specific.
University of Cambridge Dictionary of Epidemiology (1999) [Rating: 3 stars]
More a glossary than a dictionary. Very good if terse explanations. Good internal cross-links. Not MS specific.
English dictionary of medical terms (1995) [Rating: 3 stars]
General dictionary of medical terms endorsed by the EU (Is that a recommendation?). A large number of terms also available in 9 EU languages. Searchable. No internal cross-links. Not MS specific.
Source details
Author: Paul Jones
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