medical dictionary

American  

noun

1. a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in healthcare services.

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Etymology

Origin of medical dictionary

First recorded in 1730–40

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medical dictionary

The Dispensatorium Pharmacorum, a medical dictionary from the mid-16th century, contains recipes that combine wine with ingredients such as the ashes of scorpions, dog excrement, and wolf’s liver.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2018

Nowhere in a medical dictionary will you find the term “Super Bowl malaise.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

I didn’t have any water pitchers lying around, and I practiced with the medical dictionary my mother kept next to her bedside.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2014

No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic desperation, as in the nonpareil Adelaide's Lament.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first object which the ray touched was the telephone; and next, beyond it, a medical dictionary; beyond that again, the grate, in which a fire was laid.

From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer

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