Access Medical Translation Resources
To access currently available medical translation resources, click on the categories below. We encourage you to check back regularly as we expand available resources!
- Basic Medical Links
- Medical Online Dictionaries & Glossaries
- German-English Medical Resources
- German Only Medical Resources
- Medical Resources in Asian Languages
- Medical Resources in Spanish
Basic Medical Links
- Free Medical Dictionary
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Merck & Co., Inc.)
- eMedicine Medical Dictionary
- Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary
- MT Desk (The essential source for medical transcriptionists everywhere)
- National Library of Medicine
- PubMed
- Medline Plus
- Gray's Anatomy
- Spine Health
- Ed's Medical Terminology Page
- Clinical Trials (Information on clinical trials and human research studies)
- American Medical Association
- Merck Manual
- McGraw Hill's AccessMedicine
- PDR Health
- Reading an EKG
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Medical Online Dictionaries & Glossaries
- List of Medical Online Dictionaries & Glossaries (2095 links in 23 languages)
- DocTalk (medical glossaries)
- Glossary of Terms and Symbols Used in Pharmacology
- Medical & Surgery Glossary (MT Desk)
- Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body (not glossary but very good for checking anatomical terms)
- Dorland's Comprehensive Medical Dictionary
- CDISC's Clinical Research Glossary
- Medical Terms Definitions (from Health on the Net Foundation; mesh terminology included)
- Lab Tests Online Glossary (good glossary but with some spelling errors)
- Specialty Dictionaries (Law, Medical, etc.)
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German-English Medical Resources
- Roche Medical Dictionary, 5th Edition (includes English terms) RECOMMENDED
- Hexal Pharmaceuticals Medical Dictionary
- Dictionary of Health Policy (PDF)
- Lab Tests Online (in German, English - UK and U.S., Spanish and Polish)
- Drug Lexicon
- Beckers Abkürzungslexikon medizinischer Begriffe
- Onmeda (a health portal)
- Ärzte Online Zeitung
- Gelbe Liste
- Zahnwissen-Lexikon (German with English translations of terms; descriptions in German) RECOMMENDED
- Geburtshilfe-Lexikon
- Dyer's Microbiology Glossary of Technical Abbreviations (Part 1: German terms with English translations; Part 2: English terms and abbreviations with explanations; Part 3: Important usage notes for translators) RECOMMENDED
- Beilstien Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (from Stanford University) RECOMMENDED
- Worterbuch Der Bildgebenden Verfahren/Dictionary of Medical Imaging (Incomplete online version of H. Pucher; HARDCOPY RECOMMENDED at € 39.00)
- Hexal Englischwörterbuch Medizin
- Wörterbuch der Gesundheitspolitik/Dictionary of Health Policy (good glossary but contains some errors)
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German Only Medical Resources
- Zertifizierung Lexikon
- Beckers Abkürzungslexikon Medizinischer Begriffe (100.000 medizinische Abkürzungen, 6. Ergänzte Auflage; includes English and French abbreviations) RECOMMENDED
- Ärzte Zeitung Online (with search function)
- Drogen Lexikon
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Interdisziplinäres Drogenlexikon (Interdisziplinäres
Drogenlexikon
mit Drogen-Linkliste) - Onmeda Medikamente Glossar
- Deutsche Arzneimitteldatenbank (Access for medical personnel only)
- Arzneimittelverzeichnis für Deutschland (Access for medical personnel only)
- Kinetik Glossar (Pharmakokinetische Definitionen)
- EbM Glossar (Evidenzbasierte Medizin)
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Medical Resources in Asian Languages
- Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
- Refugee Health Information Network
- Immunization Action Coalition
- Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public
- American Cancer Society (Asian Language Materials)
- 24 Languages Project (Health information in multiple languages)
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Spanish Medical Resources
- Centers for Disease Control – CDC en español
- Diccionario de siglas médicas (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)
- Diccionarios.com
- Diccionario de Especialidades Farmacéuticas
- Dr. Koop Online (Health Encyclopedia)
- El Manual Merck
- Florida Department of Health Search
- Health Initiative of the Americas (Dictionary of Health-Related Terms)
- Immunization Action Coalition
- Medline Plus
- National Institutes of Health (Información en español)
- Primary Children’s Medical Center
- Real Academia Española
- Texas Department of State Health Services
- Texas Department of Human Services (Documentos en español)
- Spanish Language Vaccine Information Statements
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