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• Web sites where you can look up vocabulary words about health, disease, or medicine.

• Dictionary of Common Medical Terms on Familydoctor.org

  Here, you can find definitions for over 1,300 medical words. The definitions are at a medium reading level.
  http://familydoctor.org/x2671.xml

• Cancer Definitions

  Here, you can find definitions of words that relate to cancer. The reading level is medium to high.
  http://cancer.gov/dictionary/

• KidsHealth Glossary

  This site has definitions of medical words that were written for kids. They are easy-to-read, but the language is the kind you would use to speak to children.
  http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/word/

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