10 Free Medical Terminology Apps For Android & iOS

“Medscape is the leading online destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide. Designed to provide a personalized experience, the Medscape app offers the latest medical news and expert commentary in your specialty as well as drug and disease information, relevant professional education, and CME/CE activities. Access what you need, when you need it — for FREE.

What’s New?
* Get fast, reliable clinical answers all in one place with Medscape Decision Point. Medscape Decision Point combines evidence-based treatment options with trusted expert commentary. Now supporting multiple specialties, including Allergy, Cardiology, Dermatology, Hematology/Oncology, and Neurology.

Additional Feature
* Access 400+ medical calculators, grouped by specialty for quicker and easier use!
* Check out other useful resources including our Drug Interaction Checker, Pill Identifier, step-by-step procedural videos, and more.
* Look up the most current prescribing and safety information on 8500+ prescription and OTC drugs, herbals, and supplements.
* Explore our tailored newsfeed; read the latest medical news and expert commentary in your specialty.
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* Earn free CME/CE credits and ABIM MOC points on-the-go, and monitor your progress with our built-in Activity Tracker.
* Access the largest network for physicians and medical students with Consult.
* Use your Medscape account to access the Medscape app. Don't have a Medscape account? You can sign up for free when you download the app—it takes only a few seconds.

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“The Skyscape Medical Library app is the only decision-support tool for Physicians, Nurses, Students and Healthcare Professionals with over 400 resources/titles from leading Publishers, Authors and Medical Societies. Originally released over 20 years ago as a first mHealth tool of its kind, over its lifetime it has been trusted by more than 2.6 million Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) to access the medical resources they know and trust at the point of care.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ONE APP
Skyscape has partnered with more than 35 respected publishers and content providers to offer more than 400 virtual “greatest hits” of the most trusted medical resources, regularly updated to ensure you have the most current information at your fingertips. Popular premium resources include:
• Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
• Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses
• Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• Rosen and Barkin's 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult
• Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease
• Pocket Medicine – The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine
• Harriet Lane Handbook: A Manual for Pediatric House Officers
• Ferri's Clinical Advisor
• Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy
• Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology
• ICD-10-CM

INCLUDED FOR FREE
• Skyscape Rx: Comprehensive information on thousands of brands and generics, with interactions (including multi-drug analyzer tool) and over 400 integrated dosing calculators.
• Skyscape Clinical Calculator: Medical calculator with more than 200 interactive tools, organized by specialty.
• Skyscape Clinical Consult: Evidence-based clinical information on hundreds of diseases and symptom-related topics, presented in convenient outline format.
• Skyscape MedBeats™ – news and information tailored to your specialty

PATENTED POWERFUL TOOLS TURN INFORMATION INTO ACTION AT THE POINT OF CARE
• SmartLink™ – Empowers your natural thought process by cross-referencing all resources in your personal library, from initial patient interaction to diagnosing, treating and prescribing.
• Content Updates – Skyscape resources are continuously updated so you can be confident that you have the most up-to-date information.
• SmartSearch™ – Patented dynamic search finds the information you need, even when you don’t know where to look.
• Audio pronunciations of medical terms
• Integrated Calculators – Power on-screen calculations directly from your research topic.
• Flowcharts – Transform complex algorithms and protocols from static images into dynamic step-by-step decision support tools.
• Full Color Images – Bring conditions to life and incorporate clickable “hotspots” to identify structures.
• Signs & Symptoms Index – Matches a comprehensive checklist of symptoms with possible diagnoses.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT
Skyscape customer support is always available to help get you up and running, available by email or phone (see Skyscape.com/support).”

“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.

Can’t find what you’re looking for?? Create your own terminology to customize the extensive library. Perfect for Students and Care Providers.”

“Medical Dictionary Offline is for medical practitioners and students to look up the definitions and technical terms in a second. Medical Dictionary Offline is designed for medical students, helping them in their studies.

Get the Medical Dictionary Offline for Free on Google Play Store!!!

Features:
– Over 40,000 definitions
– Bookmark commonly used words
– Add new words to the dictionary and expand your own database”

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“Medical Dictionary by Farlex gives you free, instant access to 180,000+ definitions of medical terminology and more than 12,000 images from sources trusted by doctors and healthcare professionals, including McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, and more.

Whether you're a physician, nurse, medical student, or just want to learn more about healthcare terminology, this free medical dictionary app will help you find clear, in-depth medical definitions from more than a dozen medical encyclopedias and dictionaries on various disciplines, including entries on:

Anatomy
Diseases
Drugs
Treatments
Tests and procedures
Pathology
Physiology
Medical research topics
Dentistry
Ophthalmology
Nursing
Alternative Medicine
+ much more…

WHAT YOU GET:

* Search 180,000+ medical terms from top sources.

* Access 40,000+ entries offline.

* View 12,000+ images, including detailed photos, diagrams, and X-rays.

* Find meanings for thousands of medical abbreviations and acronyms.

* Get info on 4,000 over-the-counter and prescription drugs in a comprehensive drug guide.

* Play 50,000+ audio pronunciations for both American and British speakers in online mode.

* Add unlimited bookmarks.

* Use native voice search to look up a word just by saying it (with supported devices).

* View search suggestions as you type.

* Use advanced searches like “Starts with,” “Ends with,” and more.

* See your recent searches.

* Share dictionary pages via social networks, email, and text (with supported devices).

User-friendly, comprehensive, and authoritative: Medical Dictionary by Farlex is the perfect free medical app for doctors, nurses, medical education students, and health care consumers. This is NOT a preview or a trial version, and there is no “locked” content. Open the app and immediately access all content — no subscriptions required!

How do we do it?

TheFreeDictionary.com – Farlex apps have been downloaded tens of millions times across multiple platforms, with top ratings after hundreds of thousands of reviews. We work with the best publishers to bring together trusted content in the most comprehensive, authoritative dictionary apps on the market. Our flagship app is The Free Dictionary (TFD), powered by TheFreeDictionary.com. Find our other apps by searching “Dictionary by Farlex” in Google Play.”

The best Psych Terms app at your finger tips!

This cool app is entirely FREE, so be sure to check it out!

This app gives you a rich selection of 1000+ frequently used psychiatric and mental health terms, phrases and definitions that are concisely written for quick and easy review.

This app is ideal for all medical and mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students, psychology students, therapists, counselors, and of course curious lay people who just want to familiarize themselves with the language of mental health!

App Features:

– 1000+ terms & definitions!
– Alphabetically organized for quick reference!
– Fully browseable & searchable!
– Tap on the term to learn the definition!
– Add psych terms to your favorites!
– Share psych terms via email!
– No internet or Wi-Fi connection required!
– Easy-to-use interface!

Great reviews from our loyal users:

“As a mental health counseling grad student, I think this free app is a handy guide to terms I see often and more importantly, many I don’t see often enough to always remember the exact definition.”

“This is perfect. Might even be my favorite app! It gives great information!”

“A very nice and useful app! Highly recommended!”

“Perfect for my psychology class. This little app has helped me many times to pass a test.”

“This app rocks! The definitions are brief but very accurate.”

“’ “No home should be without one” certainly applies to this splendid medical dictionary ’, Journal of the Institute of Health Education.

This best-selling and market-leading dictionary contains over 12,000 clear and concise entries, covering all aspects of medical science. Written by a team of medical experts, the entries are accessible and jargon-free, and complemented by over 140 illustrations and diagrams. The 8th edition has been fully revised and updated to cover changes in this fast-moving field. Entries on techniques and equipment, drugs, general medical practice, health service organization, and treatment have all been reviewed, and updated where necessary.

The dictionary has also been expanded in many areas, with particular attention paid to pharmacology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, ethics, nephrology, and psychiatry. Selling over a million copies in previous editions, this is an indispensable reference guide for students, as well as those working in the medical and allied professions. It is also an invaluable home reference guide for the general reader.

NEW! Look up words in any other Android app with the Tap to Translate feature, and do it in style with any of the four colorful new themes.

Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems, Inc.

SEARCH TOOLS – effortlessly find words thanks to a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.
Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience the dictionary combines several search tools to match or suggest what you are looking for, including:
 • Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
 • Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
 • Looking for a specific word but don't know how it's spelled? We've got you covered with our automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
 • Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results
 • Use our Voice search when you don't know how an entry is spelled
 • NEW! Tap to Translate entries in other apps.
 • Share word definitions via installed apps on your device

LEARNING TOOLS – engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary.
 • Designed to give you the freedom to structure your studies the way you see fit the 'Favorites' option allows you to create custom folders with lists of words from the vast library of entries.
 • ‘Recent’ list to easily review looked-up words
 • Learn a new word every day with our ‘Word of the day’ option
 • Home screen widget provides random words at a glance

***This is a fully functional 30-day trial version***

Get even more with PREMIUM:

 • Permanently unlock the complete features list.
 • Offline mode – No WiFi, no problem. Save words on your device to be viewed without the need of an internet connection
 • Priority support – Get expedited support for any app-related issues
 • No ads – no more in-app advertisements”

“The first and last word in medicine for over 110 years! Thoroughly updated, this user-friendly reference, trusted for more than a century by healthcare personnel at every professional level, allows you to grasp the meanings of all medical terms in current usage. Understand and correctly use all the latest terminology in today’s ever-evolving medical field with the 32nd Edition of the comprehensive, highly respected Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary!

Key Features:

* Enhance your understanding of all the current medical terminology in your field by relying on the most comprehensive and highly respected medical dictionary, bringing you more than 120,000 well-defined entries and 1500 clear illustrations.
* Listen to 35,000 audio pronunciations.
* NEW! With the addition of a convenient Home page, a sleeker and more intuitive visual layout, as well as innovations in the speed of searches you can delve right in faster and easier than ever!

Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems, Inc.

SEARCH TOOLS – effortlessly find words thanks to a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.

Intelligent search integrates several tools to match or suggest what you are looking for:
 • Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
 • Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
 • An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
 • Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results
 • Use our Voice search when you don't know how an entry is spelled
 • Share word definitions via installed apps on your device
 • Swipe-to-delete functionality in the Recent and Favorites menus.

LEARNING TOOLS – engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary.

 • ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library
 • ‘Recent’ list to easily review looked-up words
 • ‘Word of the day’ section to expand your vocabulary daily
 • Home screen widget provides random words at a glance
 • Split screen support for Android 7 allowing you to use dictionary together with other apps

***This is a fully functional 30-day trial version***

Get MORE by purchasing the full version of the Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary:

 • Permanently unlock the complete features list
 • Offline mode – look up words without an internet connection
 • Premium Support – Get expedited support for any app-related issues
 • Ad-free”

“*New 24th edition content with over 75,000 terms*

Used by tens of thousands of health professionals worldwide. Purchase includes access to the updated Tabers.com website

ABOUT TABER'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY:
Find the critical medical information you need quickly and easily, wherever you need it. Taber’s is the leading medical dictionary used by health care professionals today.

Taber’s Medical Dictionary now contains over 75,000 terms, 1,300 photos, 33,700 audio pronunciations, 130 videos, and 600+ Patient Care Statements from the latest edition. Taber’s goes beyond the in-depth definitions and provides nutrition and alternative therapy, medical abbreviations, symbols and units of measurement, immunization schedules and more.

Plus, you’ll have access to the full dictionary, illustrations, audio pronunciations, and more at the official Tabers.com website.

FEATURES:
• 75,000+ in-depth definitions
• 1,300+ high-quality images and 130+ videos
• Over 33,700 audio pronunciations
• Often searched appendices with Medical Abbreviations,Laboratory Values, Alternative Medicine, Acronyms, and more
• Enhanced Search helps you find topics quickly
• Favorites for ‘bookmarking’ important entries
• Highlight and make notes within any entry
• Free: 1-year of web access to the official Taber's website

Editor: Donald Venes, MD, MSJ, FACP
Publisher: F.A. Davis
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