Medicine has its own unique language. Well before matriculating, the medical school applicant is bombarded with a litany of terms and acronyms. Being exposed to the nomenclature can help to ease the ...

When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...

Screening – any test that is carried out routinely among healthy individuals to identify tumors before they become symptomatic. A good example of a screening test is a mammogram to detect breast ...

Confabulation: A memory disorder where the patient fabricates unusual thoughts about oneself or the society without any intention to cheat. Delirium: Confused thought process and loss of awareness ...

A new app has been created to help patients who speak Innu-aimun communicate with their English-speaking health care providers. Madeline Benuen says a language glossary for Innu-to-English, and vice ...

THIS book, which has now reached its fourth edition, contains an extraordinary amount of information in a comparatively small space. So far as we have been able to test it the details given seem ...

It can be confusing to navigate the world of health insurance. However, understanding some common terms can help. The following list is a glossary of some commonly used health insurance terms. It is ...

When a person first signs up for Medicare, they may come across many terms and abbreviations. Learning the definitions of these terms can help make it easier to understand and navigate Medicare.

Dictionary.com recently unveiled its Summer Word Drop of new words that have been added to the online dictionary. And the new entries included three medical terms, five climate change and warm weather ...

THIS new “Medical Dictionary” includes much more than its title may suggest, for, in addition to contents bearing closely on strictly medical subjects, we find articles dealing with subjects relating ...