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medical dictionary

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of medical dictionary1

First recorded in 1730–40

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Example Sentences

Why I should have talked like an article in a medical dictionary instead of like a human being I cannot imagine.

You are to begin with this one; keep this medical dictionary at hand for reference.

Found by his bedside a medical dictionary (taken from the shelves of my library) which he says, he had been reading.

His “Breviarie of Health” is a medical dictionary, and held to be a “jewel” in his time, as Fuller records.

Charles tried to look up his medical dictionary, but could not read it; the lines were dancing.

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