Quick reference tools

 

Online quick reference tools

  • Online Medical dictionary - from MediLexicon - Stedman's Medical Dictionary -   a searchable dictionary of biomedical terms, acronyms, eponyms and much more
  • Abbreviations - from MediLexicon -  a searchable database of  medical and pharmaceutical abbreviations
  • PubMed Journal Database -  search by topic, journal title or abbreviation or browse by subject terms
  • MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia - includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries plus an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations
  • CRC Handbook

 

 

Quick reference tools available in the Medical Library

Item/ description Reference number/ location
Medical dictionaries AA1a
Medical abbreviations AA1a1
Dictionaries of medical eponyms AA1a
Pharmacopoeias V14c
The Merck index: an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals V14c MER
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: subject catalogue of the history of medicine and related sciences Stack 153
International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems AA1a INT
Geigy scientific tables - for biological data NN2a GEI

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Quick reference tools available in the Veterinary Science Library

Item/ description Reference number/ location
Veterinary dictionaries SF609 and SF609 (and in the Medical Library at Z)
Directory of veterinary practices in the Library Office
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (R.C.V.S.). Register of Members in the Library Office (and in the Medical Library at Ref. AA1c ROY)
The Veterinary formulary in the Veterinary Science Library Short Loan Collection in the Library Office
confined copy is shelved in the bookroom at SF916.5VET
Atlas of topographical anatomy of the domestic animals (Popesko) Oversize SF761 POP
The Merck veterinary manual SF748

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