Medical encyclopedias on the Internet

Encyclopedias:- Medical encyclopedias on the Internet include: 

1 Medscape:-  

http://www.medscape.com

Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated multi-specialty medical information and education tool. After a simple, one time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers the users to the site specified or that best fits the profile if no specification is made. Other Medsacpe resources include treatment updates, practice guidelines, conference summaries, library services, patient resources and multispeciality links.

2 Healthfinder: -

http://www.healthfinder.gov/search.htm

Healthfinder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder can lead to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

3 Dictionaries:-

Internet provides a number of sites for dictionaries, encyclopaedia and other guides. Because of the highly specialized language of medical questions, it is important to use reputable dictionaries and guides to affirm the spelling and nature of a medical query. There are a number of good dictionaries and guides that are available for this purpose. Some of the online dictionaries available on net in the field of medicine are as follows:

4 Infomedical:- 

http://home.ipoline.com/~guoli/med/dict0.htm

Infomedical is a dictionary of On-Line Medical Resources. It contains about 1400 entries of medical terms with explanations and hypertext links to resources on the Internet. Terms are arranged alphabetically. Users can click on to the particular word they want to know and get more information.

5 Kaiser Permanente's Medical Glossary:-

http://www.scl.ncal.kaiperm.org/glossary/

Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit, group practice prepayment health plan that seeks to improve and maintain the health of its members through affordable and quality healthcare. Activities include Online health care and offers hundreds of health education classes. Links to various directories and phone numbers are also given as part of the service. The medical glossary contains new terms and medical conditions.