Library Guides: Pre-Health: Encyclopedias

Online Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Yearbooks, etc.

Credo Reference
An online reference service (dictionaries, biography, encyclopedias, readers, guides), providing quality reference content from many publishers. Image searching available.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Full text of the encyclopedia.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources from Gale, Macmillan, and other publishers.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Features clear and precise definitions, usage examples, and phrases and idioms.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The historical dictionary of the English language, and guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.
World History Encyclopedia
An array of historical topics and narratives through text, video, interactive features, and social media. Every submission to the encyclopedia is carefully reviewed by an editorial team. Written in an easy-to-read manner with students and the general public in mind.

Topographical and Pathotopographical Medical Atlas of the Human Body by Z. M. Seagal
ISBN: 9781119619017
Publication Date: 2020-07-03
Written by an experienced and well-respected physician and professor, this new volume combines the entire previous four books, Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy, and its three sequels, also available from Wiley-Scrivener, presenings the ultrasonic topographical and pathotopographical anatomy of the entire body, offering further detail into these important areas for use by medical professionals.
Dictionary of Medicial Acronyms and Abbreviations by Stanley Jablonski
ISBN: 1560534605
Publication Date: 2001-03-06
Described by the American College of Physicians as "the best acronym book available" in an earlier edition, this new 4th edition features over 10,000 new entries to reflect new material related to burgeoning fields such as medical informatics, computers in biomedicine, molecular biology and medicine, cardiology, outcomes research, and evidence-based medicine, to name just a few. Indispensable reference for all health care professionals, medical transcriptionists, medical editors, ad many other users of medical information.