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American Cancer Society Glossary of Radiation Therapy Terms The ACS has compiled this scrollable alphabetical glossary of terms used in radiation therapy.
American Medical Association Atlas of the Body The AMA’s atlas of the body has color medical illustrations of the major systems of the body, including the brain, circulatory system, respiratory system, muscles, nervous system, skeleton, and the female reproductive system.
American Medical Association Atlas of the Circulatory System The AMA provides this general view of the human circulatory system. There are also separate images of the arterial circulatory system and the venous circulatory system.
Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology The Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology is a peer reviewed on-line journal and database devoted to genes, cytogenetics, and clinical entities in cancer, and cancer-prone diseases. The aim is to cover the entire field under study. It presents concise and updated reviews (cards) or longer texts (deep insights), a huge portal towards genetics and/or cancer databases and journals, teaching items in Genetics for students in Medicine and in Sciences, and a case report section. It is made for and by clinicians and researchers in cytogenetics, molecular biology, oncology, haematology, and pathology. Contributions are reviewed before acceptance.
This glossary contains two Hundred plus definitions of cancer related terms that are searchable by clicking on the first letter of the word you are interested in.
CancerIndex Guide to Medical Terminology and Cancer This guide is intended as an introduction to medical terminology with an emphasis on cancer. The guide is primarily aimed at those who may have little or no medical background. The first chapter of this guide introduces childhood cancers. Chapter 2 summarizes adult cancers. Chapter 3 discusses some basic terms used in oncology. Chapter 4 aims to help demystify medical terms by showing how they can be broken down into simpler component parts; root words, suffixes, and prefixes. The subsequent chapters of the guide introduce the main systems of the body (e.g., skeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory), again with an emphasis on medical terminology and cancer.
eCureMe Atlas of Medical Diseases This website provides color illustrations and photographs of approximately 280 diseases along with descriptions of the disease, symptoms, causes and treatment.
To find a term in this dictionary, enter the medical term for medical dictionary. The lookup is powered by Stedman's Medical Dictionary words and definitions. eMedicine.com, Inc. is a privately held company which maintains a Clinical Knowledge Base available to physicians and health professionals, and a consumer health site with more than 5500 pages of health content.
Glossary of Terms for Radiation Oncology The University of Pennsylvania Health System has compiled this scrollable alphabetical glossary of terms used in radiation oncology.
Glossary of Terms and Symbols used in Pharmacology Compiled by the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine, this site has an A-Z list of technical definitions used in pharmacology.
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries.
This glossary is on the LeioMyoSarcoma web site. To find a term in this dictionary, select a letter (the first letter of the word you are seeking) or browse the complete dictionary.
Medline Plus Medical Dictionary and Encyclopedia Medline Plus is a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. For their dictionary simply type the word that you would like to find. Its encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
MedTerms Dictionary and MedicineNet.com MedTerms online medical dictionary is the medical reference for MedicineNet.com, containing easy-to-understand explanations of over 15,000 medical terms. The MedTerms medical dictionary provides quick access to hard-to-spell medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing. If you know the spelling, use the search function to look up the meaning of the medical term. If you're not sure of the spelling, type the first few letters, followed by an asterisk (*). Alternatively, you can use an A-Z list. The MedicineNet.com website has similar search features for diseases and conditions, signs and symptoms, procedures and tests, and medications.
Musculoskeletal Atlas of the Human Body This atlas of the skeletal and muscular systems of the body was compiled by doctors at the University of Washington. Simply click on the text of the body part you are interest in to display the appropriate image.
Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms In this glossary system you can find 1830 technical and popular medical terms in eight languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish. There are four kinds of documents on this system : (1) Lists of technical and popular medical terms - these lists contain an index of all the medical terms, with cross-references between technical and popular terms (one list for each language); (2) Glossaries of technical and popular medical terms - these glossaries contain notes and comments from translators and users for each of the 1830 terms in the selected language; (3) Multilingual lemma collection - this list contains 1830 pages, one for each of the 1830 concepts in this system. On each page all the technical and popular terms from the all languages are brought together; and (4) Dictionary - this list contains a short description (in English) of each term. There are three ways to search the glossary: (1) You can choose a language and browse through the alphabetic list or through the glossary of that language; (2) You can browse the multilingual lemma collection; or (3) You can search for any word by typing it in (Speed Search).
National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs This NCI website provides interactive maps, graphs (which are accessible to the blind and visually-impaired), text, tables and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates for the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.
National Cancer Institute’s Dictionary of Cancer Terms The National Cancer Institute’s dictionary has an A-Z listing of definitions of cancer terms.
National Human Genome Research Institute Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms The National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help people without scientific backgrounds understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. Simply click on the term of interest to open a page with a wealth of information, including the term's pronunciation, audio information, images and additional links to related terms. Each listing has an audio explanation that can be heard using the RealAudio Player. Speakers comment on or define each term, which is also relevant to their field of study. For example, leading cancer researchers comment on cancer, or expert gene hunters tackle the terms on the search for, or mapping of, genes.
On-line Medical Dictionary (OMD) OMD is a searchable dictionary and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science. It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all medical and scientific terms and includes many useful cross-references and pointers to related resources elsewhere on the Internet, as well as bibliographical reference to paper publications.
This site contains a fully searchable database of bone atlas scans and diagnosis. The site is limited to Bone Scintigraphy in Children, and contains about 1000 images. Scintigraphy is an imaging procedure in which the patient is administered a radionuclide with an affinity for the organ or tissue of interest, followed by recording the distribution of the radioactivity with a special camera. Images are catalogued by case, diagnosis and symptom in order to make the resource as useful as possible. This resource has been designed for the use of practitioners and students of scintigraphic scanning techniques. It is nevertheless a free resource open to anyone.
TerraSeer’s Cancer Atlas Viewer This cancer atlas viewer is a test software application. It allows you to visualize spatial and temporal patterns in data from the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Mortality Atlas. Requires downloading the software, which is free.
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