A good starting point to understand and define your terms.
Below is a selection of print dictionaries that are available to borrow from the Library.
A selection of electronic resources from our online collection.
The main sources of TheFreeDictionary's Medical dictionary are The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary, Second Edition and Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Care Consumers, which provide authoritative descriptions of medical conditions, medications, anatomical terms, noted medical personalities and much more (from http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/).
Watch the PenguinProf's College Success Series: which shows how to approach medical terms by breaking them up into components.
Understanding Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
This tutorial teaches how to put together parts of medical words. Includes interactive quizzes.
Introduction to Numbers, Locations, Colors, Body Systems and Organs
Available: iOS
Medical Dictionary - Healthcare Definitions and Terminology provides access to more than 180,000 medical terms, over 50,000 audio pronunciations, and 12,000 images, all from authoritative sources.
Available: iOS, Android
Contains over 2,000,000 trusted definitions and synonyms.
Medical Terms & Abbreviations
Available: iOS
With over 1000 terms and abbreviations available, this app makes it easy to quickly learn and understand complex medical terminology. Hundreds of prefixes and suffixes help you understand more complex medical terms.