Medical Dictionary is intended for use by healthcare consumers, students, and professionals as well as anyone who wants to keep up with the burgeoning array of terminology found in today’s medical news. By staying clear of jargon, the dictionary offers fast and concise information, whether the user is searching for a description of an over-the-counter or prescription medication, a medical abbreviation, a test procedure, a medical research topic, or an illness. Over 45,000 entries from all areas of medicine and healthcare are included.

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Welcome to the University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center home to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. This site will help you learn more about your eye care concerns and about the specialized services Kellogg provides. Look through our clinic listings and read about our highly-respected ophthalmologists. Take a look at the progress our scientists have made in their research to save vision. Kellogg also offers many educational and outreach programs, including our outstanding residency training program.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. The collections stand at 5 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old (pre-1914) and rare medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula.

Consumer information on refractive surgery. Discusses risks, benefits, and alternatives to LASIK, PRK, Intacs, LTK, and presbyopia reversal.

Family Practice Notebook is a library containing the following 31 books: Cardiovascular Medicine, Gynecology, Hematology and Oncology, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Infectious Disease, Jokes, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pulmonology, Practice Management, Neurology, Neonatology, Dentistry, Obstetrics, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Prevention, Mental Health, Radiology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Sports Medicine, Dermatology, Surgery, Urology, Endocrinology, Otolaryngology, Emergency Medicine, Ophthalmology, Geriatric Medicine, Gastroenterology.

Guide to eye care, LASIK laser eye surgery, eyeglasses, contact lenses, low vision, eye exams, computer vision syndrome, glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, and other eye problems and diseases.

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