Explanatory Notes for the Medical Dictionary Table of Contents

Entries

• Main Entries
• Order of Main Entries
• Homographs
• End-of-Line Division
• Variants
• Run-on Entries

Pronunciation

• Introduction
• Syllables
• Stress
• Variant Pronunciations
• Parentheses in Pronunciations
• Partial and Absent Pronunciations
• Pronunciation of Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols

Functional Labels

Inflected Forms

• Introduction
• Nouns
• Other Inflected Words

Capitalization

Etymology

Attributive Nouns

Usage

• Usage Labels
• Illustrations of Usage
• Usage Notes

Sense Division & Order of Senses

• Division of Senses
• Order of Senses

Names of Plants and Animals

Cross-Reference

Abbreviations & Symbols

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