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

Example Sentences

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

In any medical dictionary you will discover that erysipelas, not ergot poisoning, is referred to by the lay term of "St. Anthony's fire."

From Time Magazine Archive

The American illustrated medical dictionary, by W. A. Newman Dorland. 20th ed., rev. & enl. with the collaboration of E. C. L. Miller. © 21Apr44; A180315.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office