Study tools
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Commentaries, glossary and index
Commentary
boxes: the core text on each screen page is supplemented
by notes, mini-essays and tables in pop-up viewers called More-boxes,
of which there are now almost 400.
Each More-box
is activated from a specific marker in the core text and may contain
a footnote to the core text, a short essay on a pertinent clinical
or socio-ethical theme, a summary of recent research findings,
a hypertext link to another section, a link to a bibliographic
reference, or almost any combination of these.
More-boxes
pop up directly over the core text, leaving all diagrams and photographs
accessible.
Glossary
definitions: we are far ahead of any paper-based textbook
in defining our terms. All the vital embryological jargon in the
text is hotlinked directly to definitions in a 1060-phrase hypertext
glossary with full internal hotlinking.
From each highlighted term, the student can follow
a chain of definitions just as far as necessary, at the click
of a mouse, without losing the original place in the text.
This considerably
reduces one of the major obstacles to the initial study of embryology,
namely its large, specialized and arcane vocabulary.
The glossary
definitions are also available from an alphabetical list.
Two-level
index:
the primary index is an alphabetical list, which is cross-linked
to a set of more than 2000+ entries in an independent floating
Index Links window. These entries, in turn, bring up relevant
text, diagrams and animations in the main window. By having these
two levels, it becomes possible to group related topics together
and handle synonyms efficiently.
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