Medical Online Dicitonaries:CAA Medical Terms Dictionary

For those of you still wanting to explore the construction of medical terms and in particular their roots, prefixes and suffixes, you may want to check out the Dictionary being constructed by Clinical Anatomy Associates, Inc at the link below. The Dictionary is a work in progress.and attempts to present a listing of prefixes, root words, and suffixes, and the basic rules to combine these terms. While they note that they have tried to make the information as accurate as possible, they warn that this listing should be used as a guideline only.

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CAA Medical Terms Dictionary

Online DictionariesMedicinePlus Dicitionary

One of the better/more useful Medical Dictionaries that can be found online is that located on the MedicinePlus website Medicine Plus is a service provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. While you can just type the word that you would like to find, if you're not sure of the spelling, you can just type the first few letters, followed by an asterisk(*) and the dictionary will tell you the options. [p.s. as usual ceck out the rest of the MedicinePlus website for lots of useful stuff!]

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MedicinePlus Dictionary

Medical Online ResourcesMedicine Online

One of the best sources for definitions of medical terms is the Dictionary that can be found on the Medicineonline.com web site. Check out the rest of the resources to be found on the site while you are there!

Link:
Medicine Online Dictionary