Links to web-sites explaining medical terms, phrases and words.

UK sites

 Online Medical Dictionary

Now exclusively licensed by mondofacto, the Online Medical Dictionary is a searchable dictionary of medical and scientific terms.

 Medical Abbreviations - from MediLexicon

Use to search for the meaning of medical terms and abbreviations such as tds, bd, prn, etc. Also has a medical dictionary.

 Medical Abbreviations

A list of abbreviations commonly used in medical notes written by doctors. Aims to make reading your own notes more comprehensible. A service from the Patient Partnership Group of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

 Glossary of Health, Social Care and Information Technology

Explains terms used by health and social care agencies.

 Glossary of Health & Social Services Acronyms

Useful site for understanding all those confusing abbreviations.

Non - UK sites (general)

 MedlinePlus

(US site) Comprehensive medical dictionary.

 Stedman's

(US site) Comprehensive medical dictionary.

 OneLook

(US site) - A general (not just medical) but comprehensive online dictionary. Over1.6 million words included from over 250 on-line dictionaries. It would be hard to find a word in the English Language that cannot be found, defined or explained from this site.

 MedicineNets Medical Dictionary

MedTerms medical dictionary is the medical reference for MedicineNet.com.
(US site)