USEFUL LINKS IN FRANCE: HEALTH TERMINOLOGY
DIRECTORIES OF DICTIONARIES
Dicorama is a directory listing 1171 dictionaries available on Internet
and more than 250 automatic translators allowing you to make free of
charge translations in more than 40 languages.
This site offers a directory of online
monolingual dictionaries, lexicons, and thesauruses available on the
Internet, with entries by subject and language.
FRENCH DICTIONARIES
Acronyms
Annuaire de sigles en santé
Directory of French and foreign acronyms (French and foreign organizations’ acronyms and commonly used acronyms).
Lexique des sigles du domaine de l’insertion et du chômage
Comprised of commonly used jargon and technical
terms specific to job training/conversion and unemployment (contracts,
services, entitlements/benefits, labor and social services agencies).
Sigles et acronymes des ressources d’information sur la santé
Acronyms from worldwide health information
resources. For each resource, there is a list of acronyms of medical
associations, research centers, health administrations, medical
periodicals, and databases. Most of the acronyms correspond to
English-language names.
Medical sciences
Under the heading "Le Cancer de A à Z" you will find French cancer terminology with corresponding definitions.
International Index and Dictionary of Rehabilitation and Social Integration
Public Health, Health Economics, and Social Insurance
Lexique de l'assurance (tous risques : automobile....)
A short lexicon of insurance terms compiled by the insurance brokers Net.assurances.
Economic and Social Sciences
Lexique budgétaire et fiscal (résumé)
This lexicon was compiled by the Ministry of Finance.
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
General language dictionaries
Dictionnaire anglais-américain monolinguehttp://www.btb.gc.ca/btb.php?lang=eng&cont=403
Online dictionary of American and British English (definitions in English).
Medical sciences
Medical dictionary.
Public Health, Health Economics, and Social Insurance
Glossaire de termes sur le système de santé américain
This is a glossary of terms commonly used in
debate on health reform in America. It provides definitions and their
sources, and is very handy for those interested in the American health
system.
Termes pour Medicare et medicaid
Glossaire multilingue (français,
anglais, espagnol) concernant l'évaluation technologique dans le
champs de la santé. En cours de réalisation.
This glossary explains terms in the Medicare program
Acronyms
Acronymes usuels du système de
santé américain ou figurant sur le site des CMS (Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services).
MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES
General language dictionaries
Dictionnaires multilingues
Dictionaries containing common entries and
definitions in Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Frisian,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, South
African, and Swedish.
The "Ergane" application uses Esperanto as an
auxiliary language because it considerably shortens the list of
bilingual translations for each entry. Online version of the English /
French, Français / Anglais Dictionary compiled by the Office de
la langue française du Québec (the Québec
French-Language Office), a governmental organization created in 1961
and whose mission is to promote the French language.
The WordReference Dictionaries are free online
translation dictionaries: Spanish Dictionary, French Dictionary and the
Italian Dictionary.
Medical sciences
Glossaire multilingue de termes médicaux
This glossary of medical terms in nine European
languages was compiled by the Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and the
Mercator School's Department of Applied Linguistics and was
commissioned by the European Commission. It contains an index of
technical and common usage medical terminology and is accessible in any
one of the nine languages. For each term, translations in the other
eight languages are furnished, along with a short English definition.
Public Health, Health Economics, and Social Insurance
Lexique anglais-français de l'Institut canadien des Actuaires
Lexique des IRSC (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada)
This lexicon was prepared in collaboration with
the Terminology Standardization Directorate of the Translation Bureau
and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Translation
Service. It contains more than 1,700 entries and was developed to
promote consistency in communications throughout CIHR.
Lexique des personnes handicapées
The Glossary of Terms Pertaining to Disabled
Persons contains some 1 800 entries. In this glossary the user will
find not only a reflection of sociological change, but the names of
programs, associations and organizations, as well as terms from such
related fields as rehabilitation and technical aids. The initial corpus
was compiled by scanning a dozen publications from Human Resources
Development Canada.
FREE TRANSLATIONS OF SHORT TEXTS
Reverso
This is a phrase translation program for the
following pairs of languages: English to French, Italian, Portuguese,
and Spanish; French to English and German; German to English, French,
and Italian; Italian to English and Spanish; Spanish to English;
Portuguese to English. Despite its slowness, the program is useful for
the translation of common phrases. This software program is also used
by Yahoo and can be found at the following address:http://fr.babelfish.yahoo.com/
TRANSLATION SERVICES FOR ACRONYMS, WORDS....
IATE (Interactive Terminology for Europe)
IATE is the inter-institutional terminology database of the European
Union. IATE incorporates all of the existing terminology databases of
the EU’s translation services into one interinstitutional
database containing approximately 1.4 million multilingual entries.
See also our English/French glossary in Health economics
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