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Bartleby.com: Reference

Access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, English usage, quotations, and more.

MedlinePlus medical encyclopedia.

National Library of Medicine.

MedTerms Medical Dictionary

MedicineNet, Inc

Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary

From InteliHealth.

OneLook

Access to multiple dictionaries. Includes medical, scientific, general, and many more.

On-line Medical Dictionary

From CancerWeb.

Physicians' desk reference :PDR.

Description based on: 29th ed. (1975).

Spellex Medical Spell Checker

Can use the free trial for spell-checking.

Stedman's medical dictionary.

[available off-campus]

Stedman, Thomas Lathrop,

Thesaurus.com

Online version of Roget's Thesaurus. Also includes a dictionary.

Visionary

Dictionary for the study of vision.

Vision-Related Terms - Selected Online Sources

National Eye Institute

Links to three different dictionaries

whonamedit - eponyms in eyes and vision

This is an online dictionary of over 6500 eponyms. Includes bibliographies.

yourDictionary

Access to multiple dictionaries including medical, specialty, and foreign language.