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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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)
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]
Biography. Gussenbauer was a native of Obervellach. He received his medical doctorate in 1867 from the University of Vienna, and after graduation worked as an assistant to Theodor Billroth. Later on, he served as professor at the universities of Liège (from 1875) and Prague (from 1878). In 1894 he returned to Vienna, where he succeeded ...