Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

First Choices

MEDLINEplus: Medical Dictionary

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

MEDLINEplus: Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

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Other Sites

Alzheimer's Association: Glossary

http://www.alz.org/Resources/Glossary.asp
Use this glossary to help understand the terminology associated with Alzheimer's Disease.

cancer.gov: Dictionary of Cancer Terms

http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary
This site offers cancer definitions from the National Institutes of Health.

yourDictionary

http://www.yourdictionary.com/
This is a great site that has dictionaries in over 200 languages and over fifty specialty dictionaries.

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