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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
"Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes". Audio word pronunciations can be particularly helpful for medical terms.
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Bartleby.com
Access to dictionaries, thesauri, style manuals and other reference sources all in full-text format.
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Focused Medical Spanish
Free assessment tools for health care professionals charged with treating non-English speaking persons in the acute medical setting.  Assessments are available as PDF and MP3 files. 
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Information Please
Online dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac reference source.
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MedTerms
Online medical dictionary.
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Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary Access Online
Merriam Webster Online Access Online
Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms Access Online
Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary
Search or browse Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition.
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Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Some features require registration.
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Yahoo: Dictionaries Access Online
Yahoo: Thesauri Access Online
yourDictionary.com Access Online
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