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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.
- Medical encyclopedia
A medical encyclopaedia is a comprehensive written...
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Stedman's Medical Dictionary is a medical dictionary...
- Medical terminology
Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe...
- Glossary of medicine
This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions...
- Medical encyclopedia
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.
Stedman's Medical Dictionary is a medical dictionary developed for medical students, physicians, researchers, and medical language specialists. Entries include medical terms, abbreviations, acronyms, measurements, and more.
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.
AffixMeaningOrigin Language And EtymologyExample (s)a-, an-not, without (alpha privative)Greek ἀ-/ἀν- (a-/an-), not, withoutanalgesic, apathy, anencephalyab-from; away fromLatinabduction, abdomenabdomin-of or relating to the abdomenLatin abdōmen, abdomen, fat around the ...abdomen, abdominal-acpertaining to; one afflicted withGreek -ακός (-akós)cardiac, celiacMedical 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.
This glossary of medical terms is a list of definitions about medicine, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.
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The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.