Kaiser Permanente is donating its Convergent Medical Terminology dictionary of more than 75,000 clinical terms and concepts in an effort to help other U.S. healthcare providers adopt and use EMRs. The ...

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 ...

Whoever comes up with medical terminology definitely has a sense of humor -- or else they've been inhaling too much formaldehyde. How else can you explain conditions with names like retarded ...

Kaiser Permanente this week announced it has given away its electronic database of medical terminology, which acts as a translation engine for physicians, clinicians and patients, as part of an effort ...

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 ...

Really refers to: A heart condition caused by blood or fluid buildup in the space between the hearts muscle and its outer sac ...