Title Highlight: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary contains over 125,000 terms used in medicine and 1500 plates illustrating various parts of the body, diseases, injuries, ways of bandaging, etc. The organization of the dictionary is unusual in that terms are grouped together under their general concept (for instance information on Fabry’s disease is found under the entry for “disease”, so it is best to use the search feature to find the term you are looking for. This dictionary uses many terms of practice and presupposes some knowledge on the part of the user as some of the entries use terminology that would not be familiar to a medical student or non-physician.

However some of the entries are easy to understand (such as “falling disease”, a usually fatal cattle ailment.) If you are looking for explanations of diseases, injuries, etc. in laymen’s terms a medical encyclopedia like the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine or Magill’s Medical Guide would probably be a better choice. However, this dictionary has many full color illustrations useful for papers and presentations that can be found by clicking on the “images” tab found below the title of the book under the search box above the search box. The images can be saved or downloaded by right clicking on them.

The dictionary also has an audio tab that links to a pronunciation guide that illustrates how to pronounce the many unfamiliar words found in the text.

Access to Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary is limited to the students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.