question: what is
the difference between medlineplus and
medline/pubmed?
Answer:
* medlineplus:
* contains pages of carefully
selected links to web resources with
authoritative health information,
including dictionaries, directories,
organizations, news sources and 650 health
topics.
* provides access to medical
information via:
* the adam.Com medical
encyclopedia
* the merriam-webster
medical dictionary
* drug information on
prescription and non-prescription drugs
* interactive health
tutorials
* contains links to
pre-formulated searches of the
medline/pubmed database, allowing you to
find references to latest health
professional articles on your topic.
* medline/pubmed:
* is a web-based, searchable
database of over 14 million article
references published in more than 4800
biomedical journals and magazines.
* can be searched for free.
* provides links to some
full-text journal articles via publishers'
web pages.
* publisher access to articles
varies by publisher--some provide access
free, others charge for the article or
require a
subscription.
as you can see the medical dictionary
online on medlineplus is the
merriam-webster medical dictionary.
medline on
the other hand is in no way based on the
merriam-webster medical
dictionary.
the medical subject headings (meshâ®)
thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary
produced by the national library of
medicine and used for indexing,
cataloging, and searching for biomedical
and health-related information and
documents.
The 2005 issue of the medical subject
headings is the printed listing of subject
descriptors appearing in
medlineâ®/pubmedâ®, the nlm catalog
database, and other nlm databases.
the following texts are regularly used by
staff of the medical subject headings
section in the creation and maintenance of
mesh. Some of those listed are considered
standard sources for their fields (e.G.,
gray's anatomy, bergey's manual of
systematic bacteriology), while others are
utilized as reference works in certain
subject areas. This bibliography does not
include all texts used for the production
of mesh.
General
bennington, j.L., ed. Saunders dictionary
and encyclopedia of laboratory medicine
and technology. Philadelphia: saunders,
1984.
Dale, d.C., ed. Scientific american
medicine. New york: scientific american,
inc., 2004.
Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary.
30th ed. Philadelphia: saunders, 2003.
Jablonski, s. Dictionary of medical
acronyms and abbreviations. 4th ed.
Philadelphia: hanley & belfus, 2001.
Mcgraw hill dictionary of scientific and
technical terms. 6th ed. New york:
mcgraw hill, 2003.
Segen, j.C. Current med talk: a
dictionary of medical terms, slang &
jargon. Stamford, ct: appleton &
lange, 1995.
Scott, t.A. Concise encyclopedia of
biology. Berlin: w. De gruyter, 1996.
Sloane, s.B. Medical abbreviations and
eponyms. 2d ed. Philadelphia: saunders,
1997.
stedman's
medical dictionary, illustrated. 27th ed.
Philadelphia: lippincott williams &
wilkins, 2000..... (etc)
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-----original message-----
from: **********
sent: 2/1/2005 04:50:15 pm
to: custser
v@nlm.Nih.Gov
subject: source of medical definitions.
Subject: source of medical definitions.
Email **********
name **********
product medlineplus
where message2
i am ********, a resident physician in
********. I have been in an argument
with a person regarding the source of
medical definitions used in medline and
the journal abstracts and similar.
This person claims to have been told by
you that merriam-webster is the medical
dictionary used for medical definitions on
medline? As I understand it, m-w has
never been established as a medical
dictionary in the way that f.Ex.
Stedman's medical dictionary has been.
Yet, I am now being told by this person
that medline indeed is based on m-w?
Please clarify this point, and if indeed
true, please clarify why a recognized
medical dictionary is not being used?
Sincerely, *****
so we were both kind of right, but about
different things
