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Descriptor English: Dictionary
Descriptor Spanish: Diccionario
Descriptor diccionario
Entry term(s) diccionarios
glosario
Scope note: Texto de referencia que contiene una lista de palabras, generalmente en orden alfabético, que proporciona información sobre forma, pronunciación, etimología, gramática y significado. Un diccionario de un idioma extranjero es una lista alfabética de palabras de un idioma con su significado y equivalentes en otro idioma.
Descriptor Portuguese: Dicionário
Descriptor French: Dictionnaire
Entry term(s): Dictionaries
Glossaries
Glossary
Tree number(s): V02.310
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016437
Scope note: A reference book containing a list of words - usually in alphabetical order - giving information about form, pronunciation, etymology, grammar, and meaning. A foreign-language dictionary is an alphabetical list of words of one language with their meaning and equivalents in another language.
Annotation: this heading is used as a Publication Type; for articles listing terms & definitions in a specific subject or field, index under specific subject (IM) + Publication Type DICTIONARY; dictionaries as a subject are indexed under the main heading DICTIONARIES AS TOPIC
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2008(1991)
Related: Terminology MeSH
DeCS ID: 29630
Unique ID: D016437
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/23
Revision Date: 2018/07/02
Dictionary - Preferred
Concept UI M0025126
Scope note A reference book containing a list of words - usually in alphabetical order - giving information about form, pronunciation, etymology, grammar, and meaning. A foreign-language dictionary is an alphabetical list of words of one language with their meaning and equivalents in another language.
Preferred term Dictionary
Entry term(s) Dictionaries
Glossary - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0540386
Preferred term Glossary
Entry term(s) Glossaries



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