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   MedlinePlus® Medical Dictionary
  The Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary online. Enter a word or part of a word to find definition and correct spelling.
 
   Merck manuals
  1. Home edition is written for consumers 2. Textbook on geriatric diseases 3. General medical textbook, symptoms to disease concepts.
 

   AIDSinfo HIV Glossary
  From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this online glossary is searchable either alphabetically or by keyword . The Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms 4th Edition is also available in PDF format.
 
   Acronymn and Initialisms for Health Information Resources
  This site, created by a librarian at the University of Detroit Mercy, helps explain frequently used medical terms and abbreviations in both English and French.
 
   Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages
  A product of the European Commission, "this system contains the electronic form of eight glossaries, in which you can find 1830 technical and popular medical terms in eight of the nine official European languages : English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish."
 
   NIH Office of Rare Diseases: Terms and Definitions
  "These terms and their definitions have been developed from glossaries prepared by (1) U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, (2) National Institutes of Health's Understanding Gene Therapy On-line Glossary, and (3) Genetics Education Center, University of Kansas Medical Center."
 
   On-line Medical Dictionary
  Created by Dr. Graham Dark at the Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Great Britain, this dictionary contains terms from science and medicine including acronyms, eponyms, theory and history with over 46,000 entries.
 
   Word! A Glossary of Medical Words for Kids
  This is the glossary from the Kids Health for Kids web site from The Nemours Foundation
 

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