Anatomy & Physiology for Health Science Majors: Terminology

Open Educational Resource (OER) that focuses on breaking down, pronouncing, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of anatomy and physiology.

670 articles on topics ranging from specific diseases, behavioral phenomena, and physiological processes to aspects of nutrition, health care technology, and human evolution.

Contains about 13,000 terms selected from glossaries and indices of major textbooks and classic works.

Provides over 21,000 definitions of biochemical substances and the processes in which they are involved, methods and concepts in molecular biology, and biochemical symbols and abbreviations.

Topics range across all scientific disciplines including the life sciences, earth and atmospheric sciences, physical sciences, medicine, and mathematics, as well as many areas of engineering and technology.