Dictionaries

Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations (5th edition)

Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Available via STAT!Ref

CancerWeb - On-Line Medical Dictionary
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
A searchable dictionary that contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.

Hosford Medical Terms Dictionary
http://www.ptcentral.com/university/medterms_zip.html
Contains a long file of medical terms spelt correctly. The terms can be downloaded to enable you to develop custom dictionaries. The licensing charge is $US3.00 per computer, with Hosford maintaining all rights to the file. Once registered, future updates are free.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (17th Edition - Centennial Edition)
The world's most widely used general medical text, now published in 14 languages.

Medlineplus Health Information Dictionaries
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
Health information from the National Library of Medicine - the world's largest medical library.

Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
In nine European languages.

Whonamedit.com - medical eponyms
http://www.whonamedit.com
A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Their ambition is 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.