Medical Dictionary is intended for use by healthcare consumers, students, and professionals as well as anyone who wants to keep up with the burgeoning array of terminology found in today’s medical news. By staying clear of jargon, the dictionary offers fast and concise information, whether the user is searching for a description of an over-the-counter or prescription medication, a medical abbreviation, a test procedure, a medical research topic, or an illness. Over 45,000 entries from all areas of medicine and healthcare are included.

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Genetics Home Reference (GHR) provides free access to consumer-friendly information on medical genetics to patients and their family members, health care professionals, and the public. The site offers summaries for a broad range of inherited conditions or disorders caused by gene alterations. Each condition summary includes the causes, available genetic testing, and links to summaries on related genes. Descriptions of genes include gene names and their synonyms, normal function, chromosome location, and an explanation of any disorder-causing mutations. Additionally, GHR provides a genetics glossary, help on understanding genetics, and links to many useful consumer, support, and research organizations. GHR is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

The Medical Biochemistry Page provides a portal for the overview of subjects critical to the understanding of biochemical processes with an emphasis on medical relevance.

The eMedicine point-of-care clinical reference features up-to-date, searchable, peer-reviewed medical articles organized in specialty-focused textbooks, and is continuously updated with practice-changing evidence culled daily from the medical literature.

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Extensive knowledge base of medical information on symptoms, diagnosis, and misdiagnosis of more than 20,000 medical conditions. Research causes of your symptoms or research treatments for diseases.

Sideroblastic anemia is an acute condition where erythrocytes our red blood cells are prevented from absorbing iron consequently less hemoglobin a protein which carries oxygen to various parts of the body, is produced.