Symptoms, inhaler, tonsillectomy — what do all those medical words mean? Check out our easy-to-read definitions.

A

• What Are Abdominals?
• What Are Adenoids?
• What Are Airways?
• What Are Allergy Shots (Immunotherapy)?
• 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 Does Autoimmunity 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 Adenovirus?
• What's Aerobic Activity?
• What's Allergy-Triggered Asthma?
• What's Anemia?
• What's Anesthesia?
• What's Animal Dander?
• What's Appendicitis?
• What's Arthritis?
• What's Asthma?
• What's Astigmatism?
• What's Autism?
• What's an Abrasion?
• What's an Abscess?
• What's an Airway Obstruction?
• What's an Allergen?
• What's an Allergist?
• What's an Allergy?
• What's an Asthma Action Plan?
• What's an Asthma Flare-Up?
• What's the Anus?
• What's the Appendix?

B

• What Are Bacteria?
• What Are Beta Cells?
• What Are Blood Banks?
• What Are Blood Glucose Levels?
• What Are Blood Types?
• What Are Body Types?
• What Are Boogers?
• What Are Bowels?
• 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 Bronchiolitis?
• What Is Bronchoconstriction?
• What Is Bruxism?
• What's Borborygmus?
• What's a Biopsy?
• What's a Blackhead?
• What's a Blood Glucose Meter?
• What's a Bolus?
• What's a Bronchodilator?

C

• What Are Canine Teeth?
• What Are Canker Sores?
• What Are Carbohydrates?
• What Are Caries?
• What Are Cells?
• What Are Certified Diabetes Educators (CDEs)?
• What Are Chromosomes?
• What Are Cones?
• What Are Contact Lenses?
• What Are Corneas?
• What Are Corticosteroids?
• What Are Long-Term Control Medicines?
• What Does Chronic Mean?
• What Does Contagious Mean?
• What Is Carbohydrate Counting?
• What Is Cartilage?
• What Is Cellulitis?
• What Is Cerebral Palsy?
• What Is Cerumen?
• What Is Chemotherapy?
• What Is Coxsackievirus?
• What Is Cystic Fibrosis?
• What Is a Complete Blood Count (CBC)?
• What Is the Cerebellum?
• What Is the Cerebral Cortex?
• What's Congestion?
• What's Conjunctivitis?
• What's Constipation?
• What's a CT Scan/CAT Scan?
• What's a Cardiologist?
• What's a Cast?
• What's a Cleft Lip?
• What's a Cleft Palate?
• What's a Cochlea?
• What's a Contusion?
• What's a Cough?
• What's a Cyst?

D

• What Are Decongestants?
• What Are Depressants?
• What Are Disinfectants?
• What Are Dust Mites?
• What Does Diagnosis Mean?
• What Does Dislocation Mean?
• What Is DNA?
• What Is Down Syndrome?
• What's Dandruff?
• What's Dehydration?
• What's Depression?
• What's Dermatitis?
• What's Diabetes?
• What's Diarrhea?
• What's Dyslexia?
• What's a Dermatologist?
• What's a Dietitian?
• What's the Diaphragm?

E

• What Are Ear Canals?
• What Are Eardrums?
• What Does Epistaxis Mean?
• What Does Exhale Mean?
• What Is Edema?
• What Is Exercise-Induced Asthma?
• What Is External Otitis?
• What's Eczema?
• What's Enamel?
• What's Encopresis?
• What's Enuresis?
• What's Epilepsy?
• What's an EEG (Electroencephalogram)?
• What's an Exchange Meal Plan?
• What's the ER?
• What's the Epidermis?
• What's the Epiglottis?
• What's the Esophagus?
• What's the Eustachian Tube?

F

• What Are Fats?
• What Are Fatty Acids?
• What Does Farsighted Mean?
• What Is Dental Floss?
• What Is Frostbite?
• What's Fiber?
• What's Fluoride?
• What's a Fever?
• What's a Foreign Body?
• What's a Fracture?
• What's the Flu?
• What's the Frenulum?

G

• What Are Gastric Juices?
• What Are Genes?
• What Are Gums?
• What Does Genetics Mean?
• What Does Gluteus Maximus Mean?
• What Is GERD?
• What Is Gastritis?
• What Is Gastroenteritis?
• What Is Gingivitis?
• What Is a Gait Abnormality?
• What Is a Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test (Hemoglobin A1c)?
• What Is the Glycemic Index?
• What's Glucagon?
• What's Glucose?
• What's Glycogen?
• What's Growth Hormone?
• What's a Gurney?
• What's a Gynecologist?

H

• What Are Hives?
• What Are Hormones?
• What Does Hearing Loss Mean?
• What Does Heredity Mean?
• What Does Hyperventilate Mean?
• What Is Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease?
• What Is Hemophilia?
• What Is Histamine?
• What Is Hydrocephalus?
• What Is Hydrocortisone?
• What Is Hydrogen Peroxide?
• What Is Hyperglycemia?
• What Is Hyperopia?
• What Is Hypoglycemia?
• What Is Hypothermia?
• What's Hay Fever?
• What's Heat Exhaustion?
• What's Herpes Zoster?
• What's a Headache?
• What's a Hemangioma?
• What's a Hematoma?
• What's a Humidifier?

I

• What Are Immunizations?
• What Are Infections?
• What Are Insulin Injections?
• What Are Involuntary Muscles?
• What Are Islet Cells?
• What Does Inhale Mean?
• What Is Ibuprofen?
• What's Immunotherapy (Allergy Shots)?
• What's Influenza?
• What's Insulin Resistance?
• What's Insulin?
• What's Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
• What's an IV Line?
• What's an Ileus?
• What's an Inhaler?
• What's an Injection?
• What's an Insulin Pump?
• What's the ICU?
• What's the Immune System?
• What's the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)?
• What's the Iris?
• Word! Impetigo

J

• What Are Joints?
• What's Jaundice?
• What's Junk Food?
• What's Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?

K

• What Are Ketones?
• What Are Kidney Stones?
• What Are Kidneys?
• What Is Kawasaki Disease?
• What Is Keratin?
• What Is Ketoacidosis?

L

• What Are Lacrimal Glands?
• What Are Laxatives?
• What Are Ligaments?
• What Are Lymph Nodes?
• What Is Laparoscopy?
• What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
• What Is Lymph?
• What Is a Lung Function Test?
• What's Lyme Disease?
• What's a Lens?
• What's a Lunula?
• What's the Larynx?

M

• What Are Migraines?
• What Does Menstruation Mean?
• What Does Myopia Mean?
• What Is Malocclusion?
• What Is Meningitis?
• What Is Multiple Sclerosis?
• What's Melanin?
• What's Mononucleosis?
• What's Mucus?
• What's Myalgia?
• What's a Microscope?
• What's a Mucous Membrane?
• What's an MRI?

N

• What Are Nerves?
• What Are Nits?
• What Does Nearsighted Mean?
• What Does Nutrition Mean?
• What Is Nephropathy?
• What Is Neuropathy?
• What Is Nicotine?
• What's Nausea?
• What's a Nasal Cavity?
• What's a Nebulizer?
• What's a Neurologist?
• What's a Night Guard?
• What's the Navel?
• What's the Nervous System?

O

• What Is Osteoporosis?
• What Is Otalgia?
• What Is Otitis Media?
• What's Occupational Therapy?
• 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?

P

• What Are Palpitations?
• What Are Papillae?
• What Are Platelets?
• What Are Pupils?
• What Does Pregnant Mean?
• What Does Pulmonary Mean?
• What Is Parkinson's Disease?
• What Is Peritonitis?
• What Is Polydipsia?
• What Is Polyphagia?
• What Is Polyuria?
• What's Perspiration?
• What's Petroleum Jelly?
• What's Plaque?
• What's Pneumonia?
• What's Pollen?
• What's Protein?
• What's Puberty?
• What's a Peak Flow Meter?
• What's a Pediatric Endocrinologist?
• What's a Pediatrician?
• What's a Pimple?
• What's a Prosthesis?
• What's a Pulmonologist?
• What's a Pulse?
• What's the Palate?
• What's the Pancreas?
• What's the Pilomotor Reflex?
• What's the Pinna?

Q

• What Are Quick-Relief Medicines?
• What Does Quadriplegia Mean?

R

• What Are Red Blood Cells?
• What Are Retractions?
• What Does REM Stand for?
• What Does Rx Mean?
• What Is Retinopathy?
• What Is Roseola?
• What Is Rotavirus?
• What's Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)?
• What's Rhinitis?
• What's Ringworm?
• What's a Radiologist?
• What's a Rash?
• What's a Retainer?
• What's a Rheumatologist?
• What's a Rhinovirus?
• What's the Retina?

S

• What Are Sebaceous Glands?
• What Are Semicircular Canals?
• What Are Sulfites?
• What Are Symptoms?
• What Does Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia Mean?
• What Does Stat Mean?
• What Does Sternutation Mean?
• What Is Scoliosis?
• What Is Sebum?
• What Is Surgery?
• What's Saliva?
• What's Scabies?
• What's Scarlet Fever?
• What's Shingles?
• What's Sinusitis?
• What's Snot?
• What's Strep Throat?
• What's a Scab?
• What's a Scar?
• What's a Seizure?
• What's a Skin Test?
• What's a Spacer?
• What's a Spinal Tap?
• What's a Spirometer?
• 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 the Sclera?
• What's the Stapes?

T

• What Are Taste Buds?
• What Are Tendons?
• What Are Triggers?
• What's Tinnitus?
• What's Tobacco?
• What's Tonsillitis?
• What's a Tonsillectomy?
• What's a Tympanogram?
• What's the Trachea?
• What's the Tragus?

U

• What's Urine?
• What's Urticaria?
• What's a Urinalysis?
• What's a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)?
• What's an Ultrasound?
• What's an Umbilical Cord?
• What's an Undescended Testicle?

V

• What Are Vaccines?
• What Are Veins and Arteries?
• What Are Vertebrae?
• What's Varicella Zoster?
• What's a Virus?
• What's the Vitreous Body?

W

• What Are Warts?
• What Are White Blood Cells?
• What Are Wisdom Teeth?
• What's Wheezing?
• What's a Whitehead?

X

• What's an X-Ray?

Y

• What's Yellow Fever?
• What's a Yawn?
• What's a Yeast Infection?

Z

• What Does Zoonosis Mean?

Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.

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