French/English Medical Translation Resources
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2. English Dictionaries
3. Bilingual Dictionaries
4. French Dictionaries
5. Major English Resources
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7. If you have suggestions...** : THE MOST USEFUL RESOURCES
**World Health Organization.
http://www.who.int/AMA Health Insight-General Health-Medical Glossary
http://www.ama-assn.org/insight/gen_hlth/glossary/index.htmThe NIH Word on Health Archives
http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/woharch.htmNational Library of Medicine's MEDLINE plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/MEDLINE Plus Dictionaries
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.htmlHealthFinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.htmlNational Institutes of Health Clinical Trials Database
http://www.nih.gov/health/trials/index.htmMedical Resources on the Internet
http://www.utmem.edu/imagemap/1med.htmlInfoPLEX Medical Resources - includes Merck Manual, Health Web, Medline
http://www.infoplex.northwestern.edu/academic/references/**Black's Medical Dictionary. Harvard, C.W.H., ed. Lanham MD : Barnes and Noble, 1992. For a quick reference, not an in-depth source. R121. B598 (4th floor).
**Dorland, W.A. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Philadephia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1957-1994. A standard dictionary. R121 .D73. (Main Reference and 4th floor).
**Physician's Desk Reference. Oradell, NJ: Medical Economics, 1974-98. Encyclopedia with dictionary. RS75 .P5. The most recent is at the Reference Desk Collection, the rest are on the 4th floor.
**Merck Manual: of Diagnosis and Therapy. 16th ed. Berkow, Robert, ed. Rahway, NJ: Merck, Sharp, and Dome Research Laboratories, 1992. Standard dictionary and excellent explanations. RC55.M4 (Reference Desk Collection).
**Stedman, Thomas Lathrop. Stedman's Medical Dictionary; illustrated: a vocabulary of medicine and its allied sciences with pronunciation and derivations. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1976. Good for finding related terms - less useful for definitions. R121. S8 (Reference desk collection and 4th floor).
**Taber, Clarence Wilbur. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Co., 1977. Good, general purpose , for specialists. R121. T18. (17th edition is on reserve. Main Reference and 4th floor).
**Webster's New World Medical Finder. 4th ed. Willeford, George, comp. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987. John Carroll, Ohio U., Sinclair CC, Wright State.
**Medical Abbreviations: 8,600 Conveniences at the Expense of Communication and Safety 6th ed. Davis, Neil M. Huntington Valley, PA: Davis Associates, 1992. Intended to break medical jargon, it is of interest to public information centers and the layperson.
**MASA: Medical Acronyms, Symbols, & Abreviations. 2nd ed. Hamilton, Betty and Barbara Guidos, eds. New York: Neal-Shuman, 1988. R123 .M336 (Main Reference)
**Dox, Ida, John Melloni Biagio, and Gilbert M. Eisner. Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1985. Very concise with clear definitions, easy to understand. R121 .D76. (Main Reference and 4th floor).
Brown, Malcolm, Paul Hammond and Tony Johnson. Dictionary of Medical Equipment. London: Chapman and Hall, 1986. R856 .A3 (Main Reference).
Bennington, James L. Saunders Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Laboratory Medicine and Technology. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1984. RB37. B453 (Main Reference).
Bander, Edward J., Jeffrey J. Wallach and Dobbs Ferry. Medical Legal Dictionary. N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1970. EASTL
Churchill's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. New York: Churchill Livingtone, 1989. R121. I58 (Main Reference).
Campbell, Robert Jean. Psychiatric Dictionary. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Concise. RC437 .H5 (Main Reference)
Dupayrat, Jacques. Dictionary of biomedical acronyms and abbreviations. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1990. R123 .D87 (4th floor)
Etter, Lewis E. Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound. 2nd ed. Springfield, Ill: C.C. Thomas, 1970. Examples of ultrasonic reports, how to write reports, suggested terminology for reports, and words which may be phonetically confusing. RM849 .E87. (Main Reference)
Firkin, B.G. and J.A.Whitworth. Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Carforth, Lancs., U.K.; Park Ridge, N.J.,: Parthenon Pub. Group, 1987. R121 .F535 (Main Reference).
Goldstein, Arnold S. The Aspen Dictionary of Health Care Administration. Rockville, MD: Aspen Publishers, 1989. RA971 .G579 (Main Reference).
Goldfarb, Bruce. Health Care Defined: a glossary of current terms. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1997. RA423 .G65 (4th floor)
Haber, Kai. Common Abbreviations in Clinical Medicine. New York: Raven Press, 1988. R123.H23 (Main Reference).
Hechtlinger, Adelaide. Modern Science Dictionary. 2nd ed. Palisade, N.J.: Franklin Pub.Co., 1975. Q123 .H35 (Main Reference).
Hyde, Lee. McGraw-Hill Essential Dictionary of Health Care. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1988. Acronyms and Dictionary. RA 423 .H92 (Main Reference).
Hamilton, Betty and Barbara Guidos. The Medical Word Finder: a reverse medical dictionary. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1987. R121 .H232. (Main Reference).
Hospital Administration Terminology. Chicago, Ill: American Hospital Assoc., 1982. RA962 .H67 (Main Reference).
International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology. Landau Sidney C., ed. New York: Wiley, 1986. R121 .I58 (Main Reference).
The Inverted Medical Dictionary. Eds. Mary J. Stanaszek, Walter F. Stanaszek, Bruce C. Carlstedt and Steven Strauss. Lancaster PA.: Technomic Publishing Co., 1991. Eponyms, common medical abbreviations, drug and chemical abbreviations, terms used in prescription writing, tables of weights and measures and anatomical illustration. R121 .I59 (Main Reference)
Juo, Pei-Show. Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Moleculary Biology. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 1996. R121 .J86 (Main Reference).
Last, John, ed. A Dictionary of Epidemiology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. RA651 .D53 (Main Reference).
Lewis, Robert A. Lewis'Dictionary of Toxicology. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 1998. RA1193 .L48 (Main Reference)
Magalini, Sergio I. Dictionary of Medical Syndromes. Philadelphia: Lipincott, 1971. RC69 .M33 (Main Reference).
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. Q123 .M34 (Main Reference).
Modeste, Naomi N. Dictionary of Public Health Promotion and Education: terms and concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. RA440.5 .M634 (Main Reference).
Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary. Springhouse, P.A.: Intermed Communications, 1983. R121 .M89 (Main Reference and 4th floor).
McGraw Hill Book Company. McGraw-Hill Nursing Dictionary. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979. RT21 .M33 (Main Reference).
Roper, Fred W. and JoAnne Boorkman. Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences. Chicago, Ill: Medical Library Association, 1994. Z675 .M4 R62.
Rothenberg, Mikel A. and Charles Chapman. Dictionary of Medical Terms for the Non-Medical Person. 2nd ed. New York: Barron's, 1989. R121. R854 (Main Reference)
Rothenberg, Robert E. The New American Medical Dictionary and Health Manual. 5th ed. New York: New American Library, 1988. First Aid terms, health manual. R121 .R855 (Main Reference).
Schattner, Robert L. Acronymal Dictionary with Abbreviations. Ed. Allen S. Schattner. Maple Shade, NJ: Omnimed, 1988. R123 .5313 (Main Reference).
Schmidt, J.E. Paramedical Dictionary. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1969. R121 .S3317 (Main Reference).
Sloane, Richard. The Sloane-Dorland Annotated Medical-Legal Dictionary. St. Paul: West Pub.Co., 1987. Gives a straighforward definition, an explanation by showing how the process works, and uses the term in a context. RA1017 .S56. (Main Reference).
Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1986. R121 .W357 (Main Reference).
Webster, John G. ed. Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation. New York: Wiley, 1988. R856 .A3 E53 (Main Reference).
**Gladstone, William J. and Pierre Roche. Dictionnaire anglais-français des sciences médicales et paramédicales. Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec: Edisme, 1990. R121 .G53. (Main Reference).
**Kernbaum, S. et al., eds. Dictionnaire de Médecine Flammarion. Paris: Flammarion médecine-sciences, 1998. Definitions are in French with a French-English glossary.
* *Lexique Médical : anglais-français. 2nd ed. Paris : Masson, 1991. R121 .L49 (Main Reference).
**Touati, M., ed. Dictionnaire international des abréviations médicales. Paris: Maison du Dictionnaire, 1994.
Coudé, Claire et François-Xavier Coudé. L'anglais médical = spoken and written medical English. Paris : Flammarion Médecine-Sciences, 1982. R121 .C78 (4th floor).
Delamare, Jean. English-French Dictionary of Medical Terms. Paris : Maloine, 1970. Ohio State
DeVries and Hochman. French-English Science and Technology Dictionary. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Has a grammatical guide for translators. Q123. D37 (4th floor).
Elsevier's Medical Dictionary in Five Languages: English/American, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier Pub. Co., 1964. R121 .E5 (4th floor).
Harrap's French and English Science Dictionary. London: Harrap, 1985. Q123. H28 (Main Reference).
Hoof, Henri von. Dictionnaire des éponymes médicaux : français-anglais. Louvain la Neuve: Peeters, 1993. Ohio State.
Lépine, Pierre et Gilberte D. Krassnoff. Dictionnaire français-anglais, anglais-français, des termes médicaux et biologiques. Paris: Flammarion, 1952. R121 .L39 (Main Reference).
Lexique des services de santé = Glossary of Health Service/Entraide traduction santé. Ottawa: Sécretariat d'Etat du Canada, 1991. PC2640 .C26 (Main Reference).
Sicard, Didier and Thierry Guez. Dictionnaire des examens médicaux. Paris: Larousse, 1991. RC41 .D53 (Main Reference).
Spilker, Bert. Medical Dictionary in Six Languages : English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. New York: Raven Press, 1995. R121 .S685 (Main Reference).
**Kernbaum, Serge et al.. Dictionnaire de Médecine Flammarion. Paris: Flammarion médecine-sciences, 1998. Definitions are in French with a French-English glossary.
**Manuila, A.J., Hureau J. Ponovski et al., eds. Dictionnaire français de médecine et de biologie (International Dictionary of medicine and biology). Paris: Masson, 1970. R121 .I58 (Main Reference).
Delvin, Edgard et Gisèle Pham, eds. Vocabulaire du génie génétique. Ottawa: Conseil de recherches médicales du Canada: Secrétariat d'Etat du Canada, 1990. PC2640 .C26 (Main Reference).
Laplanche, Jean et Daniel Lagache. Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse. 7th ed. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1981. RC437 .L313 MISSING
Lussier, André, Philippe Dionne, et Sylvie Dionne, eds. Vocabulaire de sémiologie médicale. Ottawa, Canada: Conseil de recherches médicales du Canada: Secrétariat d'Etat du Canada, 1990. PC2640 .C26 (Main Reference).
Murith, Jean et Jean-Marc Bocabeille. Dictionnaire des abbréviations et acronymes scientifiques, techniques, médicaux, économiques, juridiques. Paris; Londres; New York: Tec et Doc-Lavosier, 1992. Q179 .M8 (Main Reference).
Thuillier, J. and J.Duchieer. Dictionnaire des médicaments et leur bon usage. 4th ed. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1996.
**MEDLINE (database). Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 1966- . Kent Library under Research Articles and Indexes - Health Sciences.
**Index Medicus. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 1960-. Z6660 .I42 (Main Reference)
**Merck Index: an Encyclopedia of Chemical, Drugs, and Biologicals. 11th ed. Rahway, NJ: Merck, 1989. RS356 .M524 (Main Reference).
**American Scientific Books. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1969-. Selection of scientific, technical and medical books entered on the American publishing record. Z7401 .A515.
** Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Eds. Jean D.Wilson et al. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1991. 12th ed. (1991) RC46 .H333 (4th floor). (1987)RC46 .P895. (1983)RC46 .H323 (Main Reference). (1980) RC46 .H32 (4th floor).
Finch, Bernard Ephraim. Multilingual Guide for Medical Personnel: useful expressions, questions, and directions for medical personnel in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian. Flushing, N.Y.: Medical Examination Pub.Co., 1967. EAST LIVERPOOL AND TUSCARAWAS ONLY.
Pinckney Cathey and Edward R. Pinckney. The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1983. RC71 .P56 (4th floor).
Graf, Rudoph F. and George J. Whalen. The Encyclopedia of Bio-Medical Engineering Terms. Reston, VA: Reston Pub. Co., 1977. R856 .G68(Main Reference).
Koch, Michael S. Biomedical Thesaurus and Guide to Classification. New York: CCM Information Corp., 1972.
Wolman, Benjamin B. International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Neurology. New York, N.Y.: Aesculapius Publishers, 1983. RC334 .I57 (Main Reference).
* PASCAL database on CD-rom only (however, 80% of the literature covered is in English) A lot of the same information can be found on MEDLINE.
* VIDAL - French equivalent of the Physician's Desk Reference; available in book form or CD-rom.
Crochet, Monique. Le français des professions médicales et sociales: textes et controverses. Lanham, Md: University of Press America, 1986. OHIO NORTHERN
Economics Model Limited. The French Health Care System. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1976. CWRU, OHIO STATE, U. of AKRON, U. of CINCINNATI, U. of DAYTON.
Hoof, Henri van., ed. Practical Manual of Medical Translation Eng-Fre.
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