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Medical Dictionaries

Online medical dictionaries to help you research medical topics and conditions.

Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary

Look up medical terms in this online medical dictionary from InteliHealth.

Dental Terms

A dictionary of dental terms, including a picture with names of individual teeth, such as incisor, canine, wisdom teeth, cuspid, bicuspid, molar, etc.

Diabetes Dictionary

Look up medical terms used in diabetes.

MT Desk

A medical transcription and terminology site which includes weekly updates of new medical and surgical terms and a medical dictionary.

Foreign Medical Dictionary

A Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages.

Parenting Glossary

Look up pregnancy, parenting and pediatric terms, such as identical twins, Apgar score, doula, vegan, sitz bath, smegma, etc.

Spell Check Medical Terms

Free spell checking of medical terms online.

Taber's Online

Full text search of over 56,000 definitions, including complementary and alternative medicine and an Interactive Nutritional Value of Foods application, which allows you to look up the nutritional value of any food item. Subscription based with free trial offer.

Word - A glossary of medical words.

A glossary of medical words from kidshealth.org, including pronunciation and definitions of common children's health terms.

Abbreviations - Pediatric Abbreviations and Acronyms

The use of abbreviations and acronyms can sometimes make it hard to read and understand medical and parenting books, your pediatrician's directions, and prescriptions, etc. Learn some of the more commonly used pediatric abbreviations and acronyms that your doctor may use.

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