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Posted By: karibari on 2005-10-01
In Reply to: I found it on Google. Please SM - Becky

Subject: ON-LINE MEDICAL DICTIONARY

Dorland's has a wonderful on-line dictionary for those who cannot afford their own. I use it all the time and am thrilled to be able to share with you all!

http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_a-b_00zPzhtm

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Fredricks ataxia or Fredrick's ataxia? - help please
- Just info - USMT
- in stedmans neuro book - sm
  - Gosh, I was really off here just using google. Thanks. - I can't afford Stedman's right now.
    - keep your eye open on ebay and equp board here for them. - nm
    - I found it on Google. Please SM - Becky
      - ON-LINE MEDICAL DICTIONARY - karibari

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Sorry - but do you have a medical dictionary??
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Not in my medical dictionary...
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so that means they are "made up."

You MUST get and USE a medical dictionary for this job. Period. nm
Subject: You MUST get and USE a medical dictionary for this job. Period. nm

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Actually, diskectomy is in the medical dictionary....
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Medical Dictionary Online has
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I've never had used the word myself, but when it passed my medical spellchecker, I went searching...

Osteoarthritides:
A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.

Medical Dictionary Online

Why not try Google or a Medical Dictionary
Subject: Why not try Google or a Medical Dictionary

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Link for medical dictionary
Subject: Link for medical dictionary

http://medical.merriam-webster.com/medical

According to Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Subject: According to Stedman's Medical Dictionary

pelvi- and pelvo- are both combining forms for pelvis. Did not find either word in my GI/GU Words, but they do have pelvicaliceal, so my guess would be either one is correct. Google comes up with both.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary will verify it for you NM
Subject: Dorland's Medical Dictionary will verify it for you NM

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Fluctuance: Taken from Stedman's Medical dictionary
Subject: Fluctuance: Taken from Stedman's Medical dictionary

fluctuation (fl

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The act of fluctuating.
A wavelike motion felt on palpating a cavity with nonrigid walls, especially one containing fluid. Syn: fluctuance

phyllodes (Dorland's Medical Dictionary) nm
Subject: phyllodes (Dorland's Medical Dictionary) nm

attenuation...onelook.com or a medical dictionary. nm
Subject: attenuation...onelook.com or a medical dictionary. nm

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The American Heritage� Medical Dictionary
Subject: The American Heritage� Medical Dictionary

ver�te�bra (v�rt-br)
n. pl. ver�te�bras or ver�te�brae

Agree with you have always typed pleural as vertebrae, but just wanted to note what this dictionary states.

New home for online medical dictionary
Subject: New home for online medical dictionary

Not sure if I am posting this in the right place, but it does pertain to words so I'm putting it here. Has anyone seen the new site for the online medical dictionary...it's called mondofacto dictionary. I really like the way it is laid out and seems to have a lot more information.

See inside for link to medical dictionary
Subject: See inside for link to medical dictionary

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/hypomobility

Sted's Ortho Words and their on-line dictionary show it as one word. nm
Subject: Sted's Ortho Words and their on-line dictionary show it as one word. nm

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heloma molle per Dorlands Medical Dictionary. nm
Subject: heloma molle per Dorlands Medical Dictionary. nm

no such word as decubiti. It is decubitus. Look in your medical dictionary. NM
Subject: no such word as decubiti. It is decubitus. Look in your medical dictionary. NM

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http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/decubitus
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tendinitis, as per Stedmans Electronic Medical Dictionary 7.0
Subject: tendinitis, as per Stedmans Electronic Medical Dictionary 7.0

Tendinitis: Because this word is based on the Latin word tendo, with a genitive singular form of tendinis, and a combining form that is therefore tendin, the spelling tendonitis is irregular.

Per Dorland's Medical Dictionary - plural of orifice is "orificia" NM
Subject: Per Dorland's Medical Dictionary - plural of orifice is "orificia" NM

your diagnosis is spelled wrong -- check your medical dictionary,. nm
Subject: your diagnosis is spelled wrong -- check your medical dictionary,. nm

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According to http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/proud+flesh (sm)
Subject: According to http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/proud+flesh (sm)

proud flesh (proud)
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Dorlands Medical Dictionary says it's Graves' disease - note the apostrophe after the "s
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bedsore..
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and also Stedman's.

It is correct Latin grammar

decubitus, pl. decubiti

In medical language

decubitus ulcer, pl. decubitus ulcerS

pleural of decubitus is decubitus in Dorlands Medical Dictionary. I have always been typing decubiti
Subject: pleural of decubitus is decubitus in Dorlands Medical Dictionary. I have always been typing decubiti as the pleural. Oops. nm

Lloyd's sign. Look in medical dictionary under sign. NM
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Maybe he's saying "joint line or knee joint line and skin intact" in there somewhere? I
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Could use Thorax or Extremities. Axillary line is the horizontal line
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I was incorrect with my axillary line. It's the vertical line viewed
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CABG s/l femoral *art* line. Short for arterial line?
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Is an arterial line and central line the same thing? NM
Subject: Is an arterial line and central line the same thing? NM

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an arterial line usually goes in the arm and a central line in the chest or elsewhere. No they are
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PIC line versus PICC line....
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PIC line or PICC line
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heart line, art line???
Subject: heart line, art line???

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PICC line placement or PIC line placement??
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acidic and non-acidic line or is it acetic and non-acetic line? see message for more.
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One-Look dictionary
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Go to one-look dictionary and type in testicular cord. If that doesn't work, try testicular chord. You can do this!

FROM DICTIONARY DOT COM *lol*
Subject: FROM DICTIONARY DOT COM *lol*

1 entry found for conversative.

conversative

Con*ver"sa*tive (k[o^]n*v[~e]r"s[.a]*t[i^]v), a. Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.

She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth. --Sir H. Wotton.

You can use One-Look Dictionary
Subject: You can use One-Look Dictionary

site for things like this.

Putting in HCO3 gets a result, while putting in HC03 does not.

http://www.onelook.com/?w=HCO3&ls=a

One-Look dictionary
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=nonproductive&ls=a

see ref #7 from M-W dictionary.
Subject: see ref #7 from M-W dictionary.

Main Entry:2use
Pronunciation:*y*z
Function:verb
Inflected Form:used *y*zd; *used to* usu *y*s-t* ; us*ing

1 : to put into action or service : EMPLOY
2 : to consume or take (as drugs) regularly
3 : UTILIZE *use tact*; also : MANIPULATE *used his friends to get ahead*
4 : to expend or consume by putting to use
5 : to behave toward : TREAT *used the horse cruelly*
6 : to benefit from *house could use a coat of paint*
7 used in the past with to to indicate a former practice, fact, or state *we used to work harder*
�us*er noun

Dictionary says
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followup is not a word. Only follow up or follow-up.

I think you are right and the dictionary
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supports you. Look here when you are doubting yourself.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enlarge

but why wouldn't it be in the dictionary?
Subject: but why wouldn't it be in the dictionary?

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OneLook Dictionary
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Does everybody already know about this website?
For labile, it shows the quick definition as:

labile - adjective: open to change; liable to change

look in your regular dictionary
Subject: look in your regular dictionary

there is a word syncopize, derivative of syncopate, derivative of syncope.