Medical Roots Dictionary

This app offers a comprehensive dictionary of medical roots and medical terms that comes from the roots.


▶ Medical roots, prefixes and suffixes
- Tap a root to see list of medical terms that comes from the root
- Over 2000 medical roots, prefixes and suffixes
- For example:

"alg" means "pain"
brachialgia means "pain in the arms"
dactylalgia means "pain in the finger"
dorsalgia means "pain in the back"


▶ Reverse Dictionary
- roots that have same meaning are grouped together
- For example:

roots that have meaning "against" are "anti-, counter-, ob-"
roots that have meaning "all" are "omni, pan"
roots that have meaning "body" are "-some, corp, som, somato"
roots that have meaning "brain" are "cerebr, encephalo"



▶ Medical terms
- Tap a terms to see detailed meaning, list of roots
- Over 8000 medical terms
- For example:
abdominoscopy comes from "abdom" and "scopy"
subanconeous comes from "sub" and "ancon"

▶ Multiple choice quizzes
- Learn medical roots, suffixes and prefixes with quizzes
- Review your answers after finishing the quiz

▶ Flashcards
- Learn medical roots, prefixes and suffixes with flashcards

▶ Groups
- Create a group of medical roots, prefixes, suffixes or medical terms
- Put related entries into same group

▶ Notebook
- Write notes for medical roots, prefixes, suffixes or medical terms
- Use editor to style your notes
- Review your notes later

▶ Basic features:
- Look up an entry
- Save an entry
- Pronounciation
- Learn 5 medical roots daily (the app will send you notification if you enable it)

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