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Medical encyclopedia

The Hippocratic Oathis an oath traditionally taken by physicians pertaining to the ethical practice of medicine. It is widely believed that the oath was written by Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, in the 4th century BC, or by one of his students

A medical encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information about diseases, medical conditions, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It may contain an extensive gallery of medicine-related photographs and illustrations. ^[1] A medical encyclopedia provides information to readers about health questions.
A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions.

Contents  [hide]  1 Characteristics 2 Medical Encyclopedia MedlinePlus 3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 4 Medical Encyclopedia WebMD 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Characteristics

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Four major elements define a medical encyclopaedia: its subject matter, its scope, its method of organization, and its method of production:

• Encyclopaedias can be general, containing articles on topics in every field. A medical encyclopedia provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.^[2]
• Works of encyclopedic scope aim to convey the important accumulated knowledge for their subject domain, such as an encyclopaedia of medicine.
• The articles on subjects in a medical encyclopedia are usually accessed alphabetically by article name or for health topics.
• As modern multimedia and the information age have evolved, they have had an ever-increasing effect on the collection, verification, summation, and presentation of information of all kinds. Medical encyclopedias such as Medline Plus, WebMD, and the Merck Manualare examples of new forms of the medical encyclopedias as information retrieval becomes simpler. Some online encyclopedias, such as Medicalopedia and Medpedia, use wiki softwareto write the information collaboratively.

[edit] Medical Encyclopedia MedlinePlus

MedlinePlusis a free Web site that provides consumer health information for patients, families, and health care providers. MedlinePlus brings together quality information from the United States National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health(NIH), other U.S. government agencies, and health-related organizations. The U.S. National Library of Medicine produces and maintains MedlinePlus