Health and Medicine

Learn the meaning of words used in medicine.

• Free Dictionary’s Medical Dictionary
  Searches multiple medical dictionaries all at once and displays the results as a group.
• Kids Medical Dictionary
  Definitions of medical terms that kids can understand. From the Nemours Foundation.
• MedlinePlus
  A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  • Some Common Abbreviations
    Common abbreviations and acronyms used in medicine.
  • Understanding Medical Words Tutorial
    This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You'll learn how parts of medical words are put together. You'll also find quizzes to check what you've learned.
  • Word Parts and What They Mean
    A list of word parts. They may be at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a medical word.
• OpenMD
  A health search engine searching billions of documents from government agencies, global health organizations, medical journals, and reference sites.
  • Introduction to Medical Terminology
    Introduction to the structure and formation of medical terms and common definitions.
  • Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms
    Covers 5,000 common medical abbreviations.
  • Medical Dictionary
    Search over 11,000 medical concepts.
  • Medical Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes
    Definitions for hundreds of medical roots, prefixes and suffixes.
• Plain Language Medical Dictionary
  Translates over 1,800 common medical terms into plain language using definitions that were created by the U.S. government. From the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library.