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For your reference, these are links to sites that contain various medical dictionaries, glossaries, and atlases. American Cancer Society Glossary http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_1_8X_Glossary_ American Medical Association Atlas http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html 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. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7152.html 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. http://www.cancerindex.org/medterm/ Glossary of Terms for Radiation Oncology The University of Pennsylvania Health System has compiled this scrollable alphabetical glossary of terms used in radiation oncology. 5http://www.xrt.upenn.edu/training/resident_glossery.html 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. http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID 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. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp National Cancer Institute’s Dictionary The National Cancer Institute’s dictionary has an A-Z listing of definitions of cancer terms. http://www.cancer.gov/templates/db_alpha.aspx?expand=D 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. http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm *We thank the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative for sharing these informative links. |
