medical dictionary
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of medical dictionary
First recorded in 1730–40
Example Sentences
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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
His “Breviarie of Health” is a medical dictionary, and held to be a “jewel” in his time, as Fuller records.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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