[The application of graphic (visual) databases in neurology and neuropathology]

The possibilities and principles of creation in Windows environment of visual databases are described which could be used for elaboration of multimedial encyclopedia of selected nosological entities. Such databases are particularly important in education making possible finding of data and their relative comparison. The method of organization of "files" using standard programmes of Windows packs and the method of application of the technique of image coding for forms of symbolic icons are presented. Examples of graphic bases of neurological and neuropathological data evolved in Windows environment using professional application programmes (framing and retouching of images in graphic editors, coding of icons of macroinstruction of reading of information introduced into the relating visual database of the analysed cases.