My collection of useful medical links. I'm a medical
copyeditor, these are meant for my personal use, so they
reflect my own quirky needs in the matter. It also has
a few limitations. As I don't especially want medical
spam, I avoid sites that require user registration like
unto the plague; I don't generally save sites that are
only consumer oriented either. The list got too big,
and I had to split it into two pages. Here's the
navigation:
- Bibliography Aids
- Manuscript Markup
- Glossaries and Dictionaries
- Online Books and Textbooks
- Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites
- Pharmacology
- Laboratory and Tests
- Computer Tools (Spelling Checkers and Dictionaries)
- Medical Reference Sites (General)
- Other Resources
Also see the Reference Resources
links for science.
These are sites that I've found very useful while working
on (or over) medical reference lists.
Hop straight to the U.S. National
Library of Medicine's database search engine to look
for publishing information for medical books. (This
is much easier to use than the LOC search engine,
plus it has more medical titles.) [OK 10/31/01]
When NLM fails, the Library
of Congress is the next stop. [OK 01/15/00]
The Index Medicus is the source of AMA-approved
abbreviations for journal titles on reference lists. [OK 01/15/00]
PubMed
Main page of the NLM free Medline search
(no registration).[09/26/01]
Internet Grateful Med
Great search engine and Medline gate.
NIH free Medline, triple term search interface with
qualifiers. Additional free access AIDSline, AIDSdrugs,
AIDStrials, BIOETHICSline, ChemID, DIRline, HealthSTAR,
HISTline, HSRproj, OLDMedline, POPline, SDIline,
SPACEline, and TOXline. [OK 01/15/00]
Second Stringers
Another Medline backup; the cgi is
very similar to the IGM, with the same database
choices (see sidebar on site). [OK 01/15/00]
Backup for the usual Medline locations.
The cgi is similar to the IGM. [OK 01/15/00]
This site is IGM like, and allows the
following delimiters: years, language, human/nonhuman,
article type. [OK 01/15/00]
AGRICultural OnLine Access,
agricultural journals and writings 1979 to
present. [OK 01/15/00]
Links to 700 journals, by alphabetical
browse or keyword search. [OK 01/15/00]
Quick! reference to standard enitities for
coding manuscripts on the computer. Neato. [OK 01/15/00]
Darn. If the above link is still dead, click on
this temporary link.
One, very long, page explaining
Vancouver style in detail, with examples.
[OK 01/15/00]
Huge alphabetized list of links to the
journals that maintain author guidelines on their
sites. [OK 01/14/00]
List of classic jargon--both words and phrases--with
their simplier substitutions (English only). From Robert A. Day's
books How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper and
Scientific English. [Added 10/08/99; OK 01/15/00]
A free electronic version of the USGPO Style
Manual. Very exciting! Section 10, "Signs and Symbols,"
contains the complete set of the mysterious pharmaceutical
doohickies (scruples, minims, fluid drams, and suchlike).
You can only see them in the .pdf version, of course.
[Added 01/31/01]
AIDs research terms; the data
on this site is dated 1995 and hasn't been
proofed. [OK 01/15/00]
Simple term search. (U.K. site, British
spellings throughout.) [OK 01/14/00]
Linked text glossary, cambridge (UK)
site, last update 1999. [OK 01/15/00]
Quick glossary of genetics terms. [01/14/00]
A general user glossary of terms in
genetics research. Some overlap with HGPI glossary.
[01/14/00]
U.K. site. [OK 01/14/00]
List of classic jargon--both words and phrases--with
their simplier substitutions (English only). From Robert A. Day's
books How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper and
Scientific English. [Added 10/08/99; OK 01/15/00]
Site with a glossary for the U.S.
television show "ER"—laugh not, 'cause it
actually does include a lot of the weirder slang
that creeps into medical manuscripts. [OK 01/15/00]
Search engine, general medical terms. [OK 01/15/00]
Search engine, included here only
for the sake of completeness, as it's a waste of
time, presently. I plugged in term after term
until I finally got a result other than "Not Found."
And the definition it finally did kick out had
nothing to do with the one term that I'd entered.
Curious. [OK 01/15/00]
English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Portugese. [OK 01/14/99]
Nice looking new frames design, browse
terms using image map, or perform term search. [OK 01/15/00]
"By Tsute Chen," site with search engine. [OK 01/14/00]
Sketchy, but does include terms
like "drusen," darn it. (Long story.) [OK 01/15/00]
Useful list of terms and
abbreviations used in medical insurance and
other business-related fields. [OK 01/15/00]
Surgical and general technology—equipment,
drugs, and links to their manufacturers. On the
cgi box on the lower left, select the menu item:
Surgical Glossary or Terminology. (This is a
frames site.) [OK 01/15/00]
Small text glossary, U.K. site. [OK 01/14/00]
Repository of information relative to
the nomenclature of enzymes; this is the Swiss site. [OK 01/14/99]
Searchable database of scientific
names. [OK 01/15/00]
Current bacteria names (French site, in
English). This site is backlinked
to mine, I've discovered. Neat.[OK 01/14/00]
Complete medical textbooks
online, free. This is a great site! [update 01/14/00]
On-line introductory textbook with search.
Sections on bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology,
infectious diseases. [OK 01/14/00]
Courtesy Dalhousie University
Medical School, a reference site that explains
immunology concepts. Most of the illustrations
aren't up yet (and they weren't up when I first
visited; site was last updated in 1998).
[OK 01/15/00]
The online Merck Manual is a source
of information on the symptoms and treatment of
diseases and disorders. It has a terrible search
engine, so you need to know exactly how the
online manual spells whatever you're looking
for. There's a table of contents online. [OK 01/15/00]
Everything you'd like to know about
geriatrics, online. Search engine and table of
contents. [OK 01/15/00]
Consumer version of the
Merck Manual. [OK 01/15/00]
Illustrated explanations of surgical
procedures and instrumentation. Only the first section is
completed at this time (02/99). The directional frame bar
isn't easy to use, unfortunately. [OK 01/14/00]
Reference site, a la textbook,
on transplanation immunology. Introductory
level and "comprehensive" level pages. [OK 01/15/00]
Images
Labeled medical illustrations, nothing too detailed. [04/03/00]
Starting point with links to every type
of online source of medical images, commericial and public
(Karolinska Institutet of Sweden). [04/03/00]
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