Oxford Medicine Online collection contains about 60 medical handbooks. To view only the books to which the University of Oulu has full access, choose the option Unlocked on the left side of the page.
Kirjan lukuja voi ladata mobiililaitteelle pdf-muodossa.
Book chapters can be downloaded to mobile devices as PDF files.
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Finding variations of a word
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* replaces zero or any number of characters
? replaces a single character |
c*t finds cat, caught, commencement, conflict, consent, cot, cut
c?t finds cat, cot, cut |
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The singular form of a word finds also the plural form
Stemming |
symptom finds symptoms
assess finds assess, assessing, assesses |
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Phrases
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Phrase in quotation marks. |
"pulmonary disease" |
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No truncation inside phrases |
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Operators |
Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR |
fever AND tremor |
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Order of precedence rules |
Use parentheses to override operator precedence |
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Tips for search
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Quick Search is limited to the names, authors and abstracts of documents
Advanced Search can search e.g. in the full texts of documents (drop-down menu) |
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Punctuation marks between letters or numbers do not affect the search result. |
IL-4 can be searched il-4 or "il 4"
mRNA is searched mrna mRNA is not searched m-rna or "m rna" |
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Names including characters outside the English alphabet must be searched with the asterisk (*) |
Stefan Grundström is searched Grundstr* |
