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General Reference

Key Resources

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Book)

Call number: R121.E5 .D7 (Core Reference)

A dictionary aiming to furnish full definitions of the terms of medicine and kindred branches.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (Website)

Full text access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary (Website)

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary contains over 57,000 definitions, verbal illustrations, and biographical notes. The dictionary also includes a User's Guide and Explanatory Notes.

Oxford English Dictionary (Website)

Full text access to the Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.