DICTIONARY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE FOR
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
This form allows you to search for documents in the entire dictionary containing specific words or combinations of words.
The search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. It has the disadvantage that any documents viewed will be displayed as new windows, not necessarily in the window pane for which they were designed. You will have to use the Back button on your browser to return to this page. Click here to return to the main dictionary website
A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.
The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:
- malaria mosquito
- finds documents containing 'malaria' or 'mosquito'
- malaria or mosquito
- same as above
- malaria and mosquito
- finds documents containing both 'malaria' and 'mosquito'
- malaria not mosquito
- finds documents containing 'malaria' but not 'mosquito'
- (malaria not mosquito) and quinine
- finds documents containing 'quinine', plus 'malaria' but not 'mosquito'
- asc*
- finds documents containing words starting with 'asc'