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

His only Braille texts are a medical dictionary and a notebook of emergency procedures.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been looking his symptoms up in a medical dictionary, and he thought he had got "clergyman's throat."

From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)