JEFFSelects: Dictionaries, Thesauri, Writing Aids

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General Medical Dictionaries

• MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary (MedicineNet.com)
  A comprehensive dictionary of over 9,000 medical terms, written by physicians for a general audience.
• Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  Definitions suitable for a general audience.
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary (via STAT!Ref)"
• See also the JEFFSelects Encyclopedias section
  For encyclopedias of medical topics.

English Language Dictionaries

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Bartleby.com)
• DICT Development Group
  This metasearch engine searches several English language dictionaries simultaneously: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), WordNet, the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, the U.S Gazetteer (1990), the Jargon File (2001), the CIA Factbook (2002), the Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (2002), Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible names Dictionary (late 1800'), and the Devil's Dictionary (1911).
• FreeDictionary.com
  Lookups from anthropology to zoology, biographies, historical timelines and other features.
• Merriam-Webster OnLine: The Language Center
  This site provides an online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus. The Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary is also available via an online subscription. This site is also an online catalog for print and electronic titles by Merriam-Webster.
• Wordsmyth
  This site includes a dictionary/thesaurus and a children's dictionary. It is also an online catalog for print dictionaries from McGraw Hill.
• yourDictionary
  A collection of online language and topical dictionaries, with thesauri, writing aids, and grammars.

Foreign Language Dictionaries

• English-Hungarian/Hungarian-English Dictionary (Mta Sztaki)
• Focused Medical Spanish (Univ. Nevada)
  A basic Spanish-to-English medical phrase dictionary. It is intended as a point-of-care resource. Included are pronunciation and PDA resources.
• Glossary of Technical and Medical Popular Terms (Univ. of Ghent)
  Terms in eight European languages and English.
• Medical Spanish for Health Professionals (123TeachMe)
  An overview of Spanish terms for health professionals with MP3 audio.
• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

Specialized Dictionaries

• BioTech Biotechnology Dictionary (Univ. of Texas)
  Dictionary of biological and chemical terms developed as part of the Indiana University and University of Texas BioTech Resources Web Project.
• Chorus (Medical College of Wisconsin)
  A quick reference of hypertext of radiology terms for physicians and medical students.
• Dictionary of Cancer Terms (NCI)
  Browse or search over 3,500 cancer and medicine terms from the National Cancer Institute.
• Dictionary of Cell Biology (Academic Press)
  Scientific terminology.
• Drug Slang Dictionary (Indiana Univ.)
  Comprehensive list of street terms for drugs.
• E-Health Terms in Plain English (Atlantic Information Services)
  Definitions of about 60 terms covering e-health topics of e-commerce, ethics and infrastructure. Originally published in 2003.
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  Don't know the difference between RAM and ROM? Find the answer in this dictionary.
• Glossary of Terms in Managed Health Care (Pam Pohly's Net Guide)
  Over 1,100 definitions of commonly used terms in the medical provider, hospital and managed care industries.
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Webopaedia (Jupitermedia)
  Excellent explanations of computer and Internet terminology aimed at the lay person.

Writing Aids

• Acronym Finder (Mountain Data Systems)
  Used to find over 339,000 acronym definitions across a number of disciplines.
• Acronym Server (Univ. College Cork, Ireland)
  Used to find acronym definitions across a number of disciplines.
• APA Style: Electronic References
  The American Psychological Association excerpts information from the 5th edition of their Public Manual, with additional updates.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Bartleby Library)
  Famous quotations at your fingertips.
• Elements of Style (Bartleby Library)
  Strunk & White's 1918 classic manual for writers of term papers.
• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (University of Toledo)
  Links to the instructions for authors of over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences, compiled by the librarians of the University of Toledo.
• Modern Language Association
  The MLA does not publish its guidelines online, but does provide an FAQ section.
• Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
  This 2007 edition supersedes the NLM's Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation.
• Roget's Thesaurus (Lexico)
  Easy access to a traditional reference tool.
• Writers' Workshop Online Handbook (Univ. of Illinois)
  APA and MLA style manuals in brief.

• Yahoo Dictionaries
• Martindale's The Reference Desk
• Internet Search Engines and Guides
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