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Acronyms, Dictionaries, & Thesauri

Acronyms

Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/) Exit NIEHS Website
Search more than 320,000 acronyms, abbreviations and initials.

Medi-Lexicon (http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/) Exit NIEHS Website
More than 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.

Science and Technical Acronyms (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/) Exit NIEHS Website
Search or browse through scientific or technical abbreviations, acronyms and symbols related to electrical or magnetic units, biological and botanical symbols, elementary particles, mathematical signs, etc.

US Government Abbreviations and Acronyms (http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev) Exit NIEHS Website
Alphabetical list of government acronyms, with links to the government agencies and programs that use them.

Dictionaries & Thesauri

General

OneLook (http://www.onelook.com/) Exit NIEHS Website
Enter your word and OneLook retrieves a list of dictionary Web sites that define the word or phrase. It will also find Web sites that provide a translation of the word into other languages.

Thesaurus.com (http://thesaurus.reference.com/) Exit NIEHS Website
Type in your word and find both synonyms and acronyms. Based on Roget’s Interactive Thesaurus.

Scientific

Beilstein Dictionary (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/beilstein/bedict1.html) Exit NIEHS Website
Provides German-English, English-German translations for use with the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry. With a total of about 2,100 entries, it contains most German words occurring in the Beilstein Handbook, as well as common abbreviations, alphabetically listed with their English equivalents.

Life Science Dictionary (http://www.biochemdivision.org/) Exit NIEHS Website
More than 8,300 terms dealing with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. New additions include terms relating to ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.

MedBioWorld Medical and Science Dictionaries (http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html) Exit NIEHS Website
List of links to various bioscience, medical, and pharmacology dictionaries and glossaries.

Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Medical Terms (http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html) Exit NIEHS Website
Provides translations for major technical and medical terminology in eight European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portugese and Spanish.

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Last Reviewed: April 30, 2007