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Examination and Diagnosis

Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Video of techniques for examination of parts of the body in patients of different age groups.

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
OMIM : Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Authoritative catalog of disorders resulting from Mendelian inheritance. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Martindale’s: The “Virtual” Medical Center
Links to thousands of quality websites in the health sciences. Most, but not all, are free
Genetics Home Reference
From the U. S. National Library of Medicine. Somewhat more user-friendly than OMIM. Includes links to other resources.

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary by Donald Venes; Clarence Wilbur Taber
Call Number: RES W 13 T113 2013

22nd ed., F. A. Davis Company, 2013
Stedman's Medical Dictionary
28th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
Whonamedit.com
Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
From the University of Gent, in Belgium
What did my doctor say?
An interactive tool designed to help patients understand "medspeak" used by doctors and other health professionals.

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Developed by the Medical Library Association (MLA)

Medical Calculators
This collection of tools from Cornell University will help with a variety of procedures where calculations are required.
MDCalc
Body Surface Area/Body Mass Index
Coronary Heart Disease Risk Calculator
from the National Cancer Institute
Pregnancy Due Dates Calculator
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
Clinical Calculators from Access Medicine
A variety of conversions of patient data into clinically relevant information.
MedCalc 3000
This collecting of tools from Stat!Ref includes a number of clinical calculators, as well as math conversions and a scientific calculator.
The MELD Model, UNOS Modification
Survival probability for end of stage liver disease.
QxMD
Glasgow Coma Scale/Score (GCS)
APACHE II (Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation)
Scoring systems for ICU and surgical patients
Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE)
a ACS Risk Model
FENa Calculator
Calculate the fractional excretion of sodium given the serum and urine sodium, and the serum and urine creatinine. A tool from Cornell University.