Dorland’s Medical Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
4096 ratings )
Reference
Medical
Developer:
MobiSystems, Inc.
19.99 USD
Current version:
10.0.3, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 27 Oct 2010
App size: 142.83 Mb
Areas include anatomy, physiology, diseases, drugs, tests and procedures and much more. Youll find audio pronunciations and other helpful hints on the majority of terms.
LATEST APP UPDАТES:
• Learn in style with any of the four colorful new themes – The colorful layout will turn your learning experience into an enjoyable routine. Customize your dictionary and benefit from the cheerful mood your favorite color brings you.
• Dive right into the intricacies of the language - With new and convenient Home page, sleeker and more intuitive visual layout, as well as innovations in the speed of searches, you can get to the desired entry faster than ever.
SEARCH TOOLS - quickly find words with the clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.
Designed to provide the most comprehensive search experience, the dictionary combines several search tools to match or predict what are you looking for, including:
• Search autocomplete helps you find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type.
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases.
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results in seconds.
• Voice search helps you find an entry when you don’t know how a word is spelled.
Looking for a specific word but dont know how its spelled? Weve 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.
LEARNING TOOLS - engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary. Designed to give you freedom to structure your studies, the dictionary combines several learning tools to help you be more organized, including:
• ‘Favorites’ that allow you to create custom folders with lists of words.
• Recent list which helps you to easily review looked-up words.
• Swipe-to-delete functionality in the Recent and Favorites menus.
• Word-of-the-day option to teach you a new word every day.
Feel excited by the new word or definition you just learned? Share your discovery with friends on social media, email or any other option available on your device.
Pros and cons of Dorland’s Medical Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
Dorland’s Medical Dictionary app good for
Provides excellent medical terminology data base! It also offers the ability to create folders and folders-in-folder to organize entries which is very beneficial in my advanced nursing study!
Suggestions:
- Provide user ability to sort the order of folders
- Provide user ability to sort entries in folder, either by the alphabet or custom order
- Provide user ability to move entries in "Recent" into folder as in "Favorites"
My wife and I both work in a hospital, and she also teaches. This on-my-phone Dorlands has saved me more times than I can recall. Its very stable (iPhone 5s, with iOS 10.x.x), and it works reliably every time. There are 3 or 4 main medical dictionaries in book form, and I came to prefer the Dorlands during my graduate work. I like the way terms and concepts are described. For medical terms, I use this and the Shorter Oxford English dictionary, often both at the same time, to clarify terms. Very useful, and worth the money.
Some bad moments
I purchased this medical dictionary in hopes of a quick go to for terminology and I was extremely disappointed with the lack of definitions and terms. I can count how many times I have Searched for a word that this dictionary does not have when an internet medical dictionary website or Wikipedia well work not only faster but actually have the definition you are looking for.
I have waited quite a while for the Dorlands Medical Dictionary for the iPhone (without be tethered to Skyscape). Well worth the wait. 5 STARS. Great product!
Ive only had it for a short time but seems to be worth the $.
Just not comprehensive enough for a primary care provider. For example, here are some basic terms that are not in this dictionary: plantar fasciitis, pseudomembrane colitis, ganglion cyst.
This is the best medical dictionary Ive seen so far; although expensive, IMO it is worth it every penny. And thanks for fixing the icon by filling in the bar on the bottom - it looks much better!
Good enough for health care students, but for health care staffs ( RN,RT,PT ST and OT) , not comprehensive. Because there are only 40,000 entries.In fact ,the app is working very well. Now Im thinking should I buy the full version- Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dic. which it claims that it has 120,000 entries. The app is $49.99 quite expensive, and no reviews, no ratings. But the same developer.
