What are the Explanatory Notes?
The Explanatory Notes explain the types of information in the Medical Dictionary conventions used in displaying that information in HTML. Dictionary Search Options Main Entry Searches You can use the Main Entry field to look up a main entry in the dictionary (i.e., the boldfaced words you look up in the book). When you search in the Main Entry field, the program finds the word you looked up, as well as any other entries that include that word. For example, if you look up the word elbow in the Main Entry field, the program will find the entry for elbow and any homographs, as well as the entries for compounds and phrases that include the word elbow (e.g., tennis elbow, pitcher’s elbow). For more information on dictionary main entries, see the section on Entries in the Explanatory Notes. Note that you can use the wildcard characters * and ? in your searches in the Main Entry field, as well as in all other fields of the dictionary. For more information, see the section Wildcard Searches. P
