Some time ago in one of our blog posts, we highlighted the importance of specializing in one or two fields and we provided some tips to choose your areas of expertise.
Medicine & Healthcare is a great niche in which you can be a specialist. In order to achieve that, you need to have good translation skills, technical & scientific knowledge, and effective medical terminology management.
Whether you are about to choose this specialization or you are a translator specialized in Medicine & Healthcare, we would like to recommend you some linguistic resources that you can use when translating, editing, or proofreading medical texts. These suggested resources which come in really handy are free and available online.
- Tremédica: In the Tremediteca, you can find a bunch of useful glossaries related to Medicine https://www.tremedica.org/tremediteca/glosarios/
- Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España provides access to an online dictionary of medical terms. The dictionary provides the Spanish definition, and in some cases, it may include a suggested translation in English for the searched term: https://dtme.ranm.es/index.aspx
- MEDES is an initiative recognized by the RAE to promote the use of Spanish in the dissemination of scientific knowledge: https://www.medes.com/Public/Home.aspx
- TradMed offers a wide variety of terminological resources about Medicine including glossaries, terminological bases, and articles: http://www.tradmed.domdesor.com/biblioteca/recursos_especificos/recursos_terminologicos.html#directorio
- MedTerms Medical Dictionary includes the terminology for MedicineNet. It is a monolingual dictionary that offers a full definition and an easy-to-understand explanation of each term: https://www.medicinenet.com/medterms-medical-dictionary/article.htm
- Medical Dictionary Online powered by MegaLexica: it is a monolingual dictionary of medical terms in English. You can search any terms you want or browse the glossary: https://www.online-medical-dictionary.org/
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