Kids' Medical Dictionary
en español: Diccionario médico para niños
Symptoms, inhaler, tonsillectomy — what do all those medical words mean? Check out our easy-to-read definitions.
- What Are Abdominals?
- What Are Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries?
- What Are Antibiotics?
- What Are Antihistamines?
- What Are Arteries and Veins?
- What Are Astringents?
- What Does Alignment Mean?
- What Does Amputate Mean?
- What Is AIDS?
- What Is Alzheimer's Disease?
- What Is Anorexia Nervosa?
- What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
- What's Acne?
- What's Addiction?
- What's Aerobic Activity?
- What's an Abrasion?
- What's an Abscess?
- What's an Asthma Action Plan?
- What's an Asthma Flare-Up?
- What's Anemia?
- What's Anesthesia?
- What's Appendicitis?
- What's Arthritis?
- What's Astigmatism?
- What's Autism?
- What Are Bacteria?
- What Are Blood Banks?
- What Are Blood Types?
- What Are Braces?
- What Are Bronchial Tubes?
- What Are Bruises?
- What Are First-Degree Burns?
- What Are Second-Degree Burns?
- What Are Third-Degree Burns?
- What Is Bell's Palsy?
- What Is Blood Pressure?
- What Is Bone Marrow?
- What Is Breast Cancer?
- What Is Bruxism?
- What's a Biopsy?
- What's a Blackhead?
- What Are Canker Sores?
- What Are Carbohydrates?
- What Are Caries?
- What Are Chromosomes?
- What Are Cones?
- What Are Contact Lenses?
- What Are Corneas?
- What Does Chronic Mean?
- What Does Contagious Mean?
- What Is a Complete Blood Count (CBC)?
- What Is Cellulitis?
- What Is Cerumen?
- What Is Chemotherapy?
- What Is Coxsackievirus?
- What's a Cardiologist?
- What's a Cast?
- What's a Cleft Lip?
- What's a Cleft Palate?
- What's a Contusion?
- What's a CT Scan/CAT Scan?
- What's a Cyst?
- What's Conjunctivitis?
- What Are Decongestants?
- What Are Depressants?
- What Are Disinfectants?
- What Does Diagnosis Mean?
- What Does Dislocation Mean?
- What Is DNA?
- What Is Down Syndrome?
- What's a Dermatologist?
- What's a Dietitian?
- What's Dandruff?
- What's Dehydration?
- What's Depression?
- What's Dermatitis?
- What's Dyslexia?
- What Does Epistaxis Mean?
- What Is Edema?
- What Is External Otitis?
- What's Enamel?
- What's Enuresis?
- What's the Epiglottis?
- What's the ER?
- What's the Eustachian Tube?
- What Does Farsighted Mean?
- What Is Dental Floss?
- What Is Frostbite?
- What's a Fever?
- What's a Foreign Body?
- What's a Fracture?
- What's Fluoride?
- What's the Flu?
- What Are Gums?
- What Is a Gait Abnormality?
- What Is a Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test (Hemoglobin A1c)?
- What Is Gastroenteritis?
- What Is Gingivitis?
- What's a Gurney?
- What's a Gynecologist?
- What's Glycogen?
- What's Growth Hormone?
- What Are Hormones?
- What Does Hearing Loss Mean?
- What Is Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease?
- What Is Hemophilia?
- What Is Hydrocortisone?
- What Is Hydrogen Peroxide?
- What Is Hyperopia?
- What Is Hypothermia?
- What's a Hemangioma?
- What's a Hematoma?
- What's a Humidifier?
- What's Heat Exhaustion?
- What's Herpes Zoster?
- What Are Immunizations?
- What Are Infections?
- What Are Involuntary Muscles?
- What Is Ibuprofen?
- What's an Injection?
- What's an IV Line?
- What's Immunotherapy (Allergy Shots)?
- What's Influenza?
- What's the ICU?
- What's the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)?
- Word! Impetigo
- What Is a Lung Function Test?
- What Is Laparoscopy?
- What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
- What's Lyme Disease?
- What Are Migraines?
- What Does Menstruation Mean?
- What Does Myopia Mean?
- What Is Malocclusion?
- What's a Microscope?
- What's a Mucous Membrane?
- What's an MRI?
- What's Melanin?
- What's Mononucleosis?
- What's Myalgia?
- What Are Nits?
- What Does Nearsighted Mean?
- What Does Nutrition Mean?
- What Is Nicotine?
- What's a Nasal Cavity?
- What's a Night Guard?
- What's the Navel?
- What's the Nervous System?
- What Is Osteoporosis?
- What Is Otalgia?
- What Is Otitis Media?
- What's an Occupational Therapist?
- What's an Oncologist?
- What's an Operation?
- What's an Ophthalmologist?
- What's an Optician?
- What's an Optometrist?
- What's an Orthodontist?
- What's an Orthopedic Surgeon?
- What's an Otolaryngologist?
- What's Occupational Therapy?
- What Are Palpitations?
- What Are Papillae?
- What Are Pupils?
- What Does Pregnant Mean?
- What Is Parkinson's Disease?
- What Is Polydipsia?
- What's a Pediatrician?
- What's a Pimple?
- What's a Prosthesis?
- What's Petroleum Jelly?
- What's Plaque?
- What's Pollen?
- What's Protein?
- What's the Palate?
- What's the Pilomotor Reflex?
- What's the Pinna?
- What Are Red Blood Cells?
- What Are Retractions?
- What Does Rx Mean?
- What Is Roseola?
- What's a Radiologist?
- What's a Rash?
- What's a Retainer?
- What's a Rheumatologist?
- What's a Rhinovirus?
- What's Ringworm?
- What's the Retina?
- What Are Sebaceous Glands?
- What Are Semicircular Canals?
- What Are Symptoms?
- What Does Stat Mean?
- What Is Scoliosis?
- What Is Sebum?
- What Is Surgery?
- What's a Scab?
- What's a Scar?
- What's a Spinal Tap?
- What's a Sprain?
- What's a Stethoscope?
- What's a Strain?
- What's a Strep Screen?
- What's a Stye?
- What's a Suture?
- What's a Syringe?
- What's Scabies?
- What's Scarlet Fever?
- What's Shingles?
- What's Sinusitis?
- What's Strep Throat?
- What's the Stapes?