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- MedTerms medical dictionary is the medical reference for MedicineNet.com. Our doctors define difficult medical language in easy-to-understand explanations of over 16,000 medical terms.
- Medterms online medical dictionary provides quick access to hard-to-spell and often misspelled medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing.
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A Note to Healthcare Professionals: The MedTerms online medical dictionary is written with consumers and
patients in mind. Here are other medical reference books recommended by our doctors:
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
- Mosby's Medical Dictionary
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
