Jul 01, 2006
(Vol. 26, No. 13)
On-line Medical Dictionary
Have you ever needed a definition of the term ectolecithal? How about a brief description of what Kawasaki disease is? If so, you’re a prime candidate for the On-line Medical Dictionary, hosted at the Department of Medical Oncology at the University of Newcastle. With a Spartan interface on the opening page—search engine, hyperlinked letters of the alphabet, and a few buttons—On-line Medical Dictionary doesn’t score any points for flash. What it lacks in pizzazz, however, it makes up in content. Every search term I could think of brought up a definition and these were hyperlinked as well. One confusing convention—typing a word in the box of the search engine followed by a carriage return doesn’t initiate a search of the database. Instead, the Help function is activated.
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