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This portable medical dictionary allows medical professionals to easily explain complicated terminology in ways ordinary, untrained consumers can understand. The dictionary contains more than 45,000 terms, as well as diagrams and illustrations which enhance the definitions of those terms. The medical dictionary ... includes brief biographies about some of the important contributors to the medical professional (Stedman's Medical Dictionary).
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Dorland's Medical Dictionary, regarded as the first modern medical dictionary was published in 1890 as the American Illustrated Medical Dictionary. In 1898, a pocket edition called the American Pocket Medical Dictionary consisting of 500 pages was published. After the death of editor William Alexander Newman Dorland, AM, MD in 1956 the name of dictionaries was re-titled to slot in his name and the dictionaries became popular by the new name. The recent version, the 30th edition is available in electronic version.
The library provides access to several medical dictionaries and other reference books, but they are not always easy to find in the library catalog. In addition, there are quality resources available for free on the web. Links that are marked "free" are available to anyone. All other works are available to University of Chicago users only.
The handhelds ... give students access to a large body of reference works provided by NCSU, such as lab normal values, virus references, medical dictionaries, and drug formularies. Students will use Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm OS to access the Veterinary Teaching Hospital's policy and procedure manual with an interactive table of contents on everything from what to do if a dog bites during an exam to how to handle the unexpected death of an animal. McWhorter also maintains an extensive website of technical documents in support of the Mobile Computing Initiative.
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