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This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions about medicine, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.
Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine.
A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's. Other significant medical dictionaries are distributed by Elsevier.
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Pages in category "Glossaries of medicine". The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Some common medical abbreviations. Notation conventions. This series of lists omits periods from acronyms and initialisms. It uses periods for certain abbreviations that traditionally often have them (mostly older Latin/Neo-Latin abbreviations). For example, both bid and b.i.d. may be found in the list.
A medical encyclopaedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information about diseases, medical conditions, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It may contain an extensive gallery of medicine-related photographs and illustrations.
This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions about medicine, its sub-disciplines, and related fields. Most of the terms listed in Wikipedia glossaries are already defined and explained within Wikipedia itself.
Medicine is the science that treats and prevents diseases in humans. Medical workers treat injuries , infections , and sickness. Medicine also helps people with disease prevention and the best ways to not get sick from bacteria or viruses.
Our dictionary of more than 1,300 medical terms can help you gain a better understanding of complex medical language.
