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- Look through the medical encyclopedia for information on conditions and diseases -including definitions, causes, incidence, and risk factors. Available in Spanish.

- The Medical Library Association developed this tool to help consumers translate terms used by health professionals.

- The Nemours Foundation put together this list of health terms especially for kids.

- The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) offers a list of health insurance terms.

- Academy Health compiled a list of terms used in health care policy and is divided into three sections: 1) health care delivery and financing terms; 2) epidemiological and statistical terms; and 3) accounting and economic terms.

- Multilingual glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

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