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Anatomia 1522 to 1867 - Anatomical Plates from the (University of Toronto) Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University […]

Two resources I stumbled across recently:

The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo is a collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to produce and make available over the internet a three-dimensional image reference of the Human Embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging. The collection of images is intended to serve students, researchers, […]

Erin McKean’s TED Talk on dictionaries is wonderful. She’s brilliant and funny and she expanded my vocabulary. Watch and enjoy.

More about McKean here and here.
Also be sure to check out McKean’s blog, Dictionary Evangelist.

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So, today I tried out Medie. I’d said I’d write about it as a third party Medline tool. I can’t. At least not as a hospital librarian. I was going to try to give it a pat on its back and insincerely flash it half a smile so it wouldn’t feel too badly about […]

I’ve been rethinking my previous post on “symptom-based search”, and thinking that I’ve been sloppy with my language. Some of these tools include a search component (sometimes searching proprietary content, sometimes searching the Web, sometimes searching select Web sites), but I think categorizing them as “search” tools was a mistake. From now on, […]

I’ve previously mentioned Abbreviations.com (particularly its medical abbreviations section) as a resource for looking up medical abbreviations, acronyms, or initialisms and I’ve posted about KMLE - but I’ve encountered a few more lately that appear worth noting:
Stanford Biomedical Abbreviation Server
Used a text-mining approach to create a database dictionary from PubMed/MEDLINE citations.
We have scanned 11,447,996 PubMed […]

This site is a visual educational resource dedicated to providing pictures that are representative of common and uncommon physical exam findings. Discussions of pathophysiology, diagnostics, and treatment are not included. View the “Links” to see selected related sites.
Feel free to download images for use in your own educational endeavors, though please provide appropriate credit for […]

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Interesting outreach program by the Macon State College Library sends librarians with laptops to the cafeteria/student life center at lunchtime to answer reference questions or help students find information they need for their coursework.
It seems like a groovy idea to me. One question: Why only 90 minutes per week?

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Welcome to RedAtlas.org
This website is a free, electronic atlas of eye disorders designed to help Ophthalmologists and Optometrists-in-training learn to identify eye diseases through pattern recognition. Since our launch on February 2, 2002, we have received over 3,000,000 hits from more than 60 countries around the world. The atlas is currently being hosted through the […]

From California State University, Dominguez Hill College of Health and Human services, a series of streaming video tutorials and illustrations to aid the teaching of physical examination techniques broken out by anatomical area or system.
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A request from a patron resulted in my collecting a list of anatomy and medical illustration resources:
The Visible Human
The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM’s 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and […]

MusicTonic lets you browse through music artists by genre or directly search, returning related images, videos, blog posts, and a list of “Related Artists”- all in one interface.

Just to put it to the test, I thought I’d try searches on musicians not quite as well known as the Beatles, and was fairly impressed with the […]

Regular readers know that I try to avoid posting about topics that other medical library bloggers have covered, but these are both exciting resources that really shouldn’t be missed.
MLA-HLS Wiki
Welcome to the hospital librarians’ wiki. The wiki is sponsored by the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association, an organization of 1,200 members who […]

A recent thread on the Web4Lib listserv explored various Web tools for locating libraries geographically. Here’s a review of those plus a few more.
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National Center for Education Statistics: Library Statistics Program*

GeoLib*
Public Library Geographic Database (PLGDB) Mapping

Libraries411.com*

MapMuse: Public Libraries*

WebJunction: Online Directory of Public Library Statistics*
“Here’s a directory of public library […]

http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/heart-encyclopedia/
Pediatric Heart Information for Patients, Families, Medical Professionals
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s Heart Center staff compiled this Heart Center Encyclopedia to provide easily accessible information on cardiac diseases, defects, disorders, and problems that may affect a child’s heart.
The Heart Center Encyclopedia also provides information about options available to diagnose and treat children’s heart conditions and […]

Abbreviations.com is a nifty site for looking up the meanings of (appropriately enough) abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms.
Because people working in a medical environment have great need of this sort of service, the site has a section just for medical abbreviations in 6 categories: Hospitals (939 entries), Human Genome (941 entries), Laboratory (1002 entries), Oncology (743 […]

http://www.radiologysearch.net/
Great page that brings together twelve different radiology searching tools.
http://www.pedrad.info/
PedRad.info is a Pediatric Radiology information, publication and communication platform. Find interesting and typical image findings of the child and the juvenile age. Publish your own peer reviewed cases and teaching files. Discuss with other colleagues about peer reviewed pediatric radiological cases and […]

WordSource actually reminds me a lot of Wiktionary.
Comparison Word: “Normative”
Wiktionary entry

WordSource entry

It will be interesting to see how this develops, but I still pretty much use Google or MetaGlosssary when I need a general online dictionary.
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The mission of Pain Treatment Topics is to provide access to news, information, research, and education relating to the causes and effective management of pain. Along with that, we are dedicated to offering contents that are evidence-based, unbiased, non-commercial, and comply with the highest standards and principles of accrediting and other oversight organizations.
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DermAtlas is a searchable Dermatology Image Atlas containing (at this moment) 9286 images created via contributions from 395 individuals (and counting) in 62 nations.

Above: Entry in search results
DermAtlas .org features an Advanced Search, a great page of Dermatology Links, and a Submit form for those who wish to contribute. Each entry has […]