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A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's. Other significant medical dictionaries are distributed by Elsevier. Dictionaries often have multiple versions, with content ...
Dorland's is the brand name of a family of medical reference works (including dictionaries, spellers and word books, and spell-check software) in various media spanning printed books, CD-ROMs, and online content. The flagship products are Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (currently in its 33rd edition) and Dorland's Pocket Medical ...
The variant with thyroidea (omitting e after thyr) is a compromise for English-speaking anatomists, as they have difficulties pronouncing that specific combination of letters, [25] forcing a greater resemblance between Latin and English orthography. Dorland's medical dictionary from 1948 [12] already adopted this incorrect spelling with an ...
Specialty. Orthopedics. Osteophytes are exostoses (bony projections) that form along joint margins. [ 1] They should not be confused with enthesophytes, which are bony projections that form at the attachment of a tendon or ligament. [ 2] Osteophytes are not always distinguished from exostoses in any definite way, although in many cases there ...
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
This template allows consistent presentation for URLs that point to Dorland's Medical Dictionary. To use this template, first look up a term in Dorland's (for example, Simmonds disease ). Note that the end of the URL is "dorlands/dorland/ nine/000956983 .htm" (emphasis added).
In medicine, both ancient and modern, a dyscrasia is any of various disorders. The word has ancient Greek roots meaning "bad mixture". [1] The concept of dyscrasia was developed by the Greek physician Galen (129–216 AD), who elaborated a model of health and disease as a structure of elements, qualities, humors, organs, and temperaments (based on earlier humorism).
A better choice might be to direct to the Free Dictionary, the Medical Dictionary component, which includes a version of Dorland's as a source (indicating the sourcing on each definition); see, for instance, the brainstem entry. --User:Ceyockey 01:48, 2 December 2013 (UTC)