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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 ...
An idiopathic disease is any disease with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [ 1] For some medical conditions, one or more causes are somewhat understood, but in a certain percentage of people with the condition, the cause may not be readily apparent or characterized. In these cases, the origin of the condition is ...
Scientology. An engram, as used in Dianetics and Scientology, is a detailed mental image or memory of a traumatic event from the past that occurred when an individual was partially or fully unconscious. It is considered to be pseudoscientific [ 1][ 2] and is different from the meaning of "engram" in cognitive psychology. [ 3]
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)
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer FRS [1] FRSE FRCP (2 June 1850 – 29 March 1935) was a British physiologist . He is regarded as a founder of endocrinology: [2] in 1894 he discovered and demonstrated the existence of adrenaline together with George Oliver, and he also coined the term "endocrine" for the secretions of the ductless glands.
Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938) Published works [ edit ] "The diseases of the ear, their diagnosis and treatment: a text-book of aural surgery in the form of academical lectures by Anton von Tröltsch"; translated from the German and edited by D.B. St. John Roosa.
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).