Tools For Viewing

Tools For Viewing

The following software and/or tips may be helpful to you in viewing some of the material contained on this website.

Helpful Hint

Hassle-free copying & pasting

Copying text from a webpage and pasting it into a MS Word document has become one of the most common tasks that PC users employ. However, often times you get stuck having to clean up a lot of formatting. Here's how to "cleanly" paste text into MS Word:

Copy the text (CTRL+C or EDIT > COPY) from a webpage or other source.

Open MS Word
- From the EDIT menu in Word choose
PASTE SPECIAL
- Select UNFORMATTED TEXT and click OK

Medical Dictionary and Tests & Procedures - InteliHealth's Look up symptoms and/or testing procedures used for HD.

Talking Dictionary - MSN's Encarta - Get definitions to medical terminology. You can either read the information or this site will read the information out loud to you!

Translator

Babelfish Translator-Translate any information or a whole webpage into another language:

Clinical Definition-Search

From the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Definitions provided by the National Institutes of Health

GLOSSARY

(Definitions of words describing genetic disorders and birth defects.)

Click on a letter to jump to a disorder beginning with that letter

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Prefixes, Suffixes,& and Root Words

A Quick TUTORIAL - How to Translate Medical Terms into Understandable English

There are simple words, called root words, that describe simple objects or processes. To describe something more complex, another root word is often added in front of it (a prefix) or following it (a suffix). To decypher or translate a term into plain English, it must first be broken down into individual Latin words. This can be done with the section on "Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words" found on this site.

Adobe Acrobat Software
Some items on this site require Adobe for PDF formatted documents. You can download this software below. Click on either symbol to be taken directly to the resource.

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Download this resource designed to help people with disabilities work more effectively with Adobe software or the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Flash Player

Quicktime

Real Player

Shock Wave

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Mapquest Driving Directions

Need driving directions to an medical facility? Go to the below website, put

in your address and the address of the place on your State's page you want

to go to, and you'll get detailed driving instructions.