SE Directly from the website http://www.seguemd.com/eponyms/ the dMedical Eponyms™ is a Pocket PC program that contains a list of over 1,500 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions. It is based on Andrew Yee's (http://www.eponyms.net) medical eponym database.
It is available in palm and pocket PC software and was released May 7, 2005 by the by Segue Corporation.
I learned about this resource two and one half years ago during pharmacy practice lab and orientation for pharmacy school at University of Iowa. When I acquired my PDA I placed the medical terminology database on my PDA. Not until recently have I used the program. It comes in handy while reading an article or reviewing patient case notes.
A quick alphabet tab takes you to the disease state descriptions quickly or one can choose to do a search using the keypad. Also one can search using the category setting then scroll down to the area in question, ie: ANAT, DERM, ORTHO, PATH, etc. Disease states from each specifically selected category will then be displayed.
This is a small database taking little memory and could become very handy to have in a pinch. -End- SE
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TL: Thanks, SE, for posting information about this site. I have not used it yet but will give it a try when I prepare to go over the next patient case in class.
PH: Yes, I appreciated hearing about this site as well SE, I was unaware of it, but am now interested in checking it out. I often encounter eponyms and abbreviations that I am not familiar with and a source like this would be helpful. Just looking through some of the lecture notes for our oncology module for therapeutics is making me think this might be helpful.
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