Medical Abbreviations
By QD Ideas, LLC
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Description
** Thanks to our awesome users, Medical Abbreviations now contains more than 14,000 abbreviation definitions!! **
Save time when confronted with abbreviations in your practice. Medical Abbreviations provides simple, fast and convenient access to more than 14000 medical abbreviations at your fingertips. Easily search the abbreviations and definitions and see the search results as you type. Browse the abbreviations by sliding your finger along the convenient index. Lookup the meanings of abbreviations in Wikipedia and Google.
Features in version 1.3
- Improved searching; an exact abbreviation match is shown first
- 14045 meanings for 8118 abbreviations
- Quickly lookup definitions in Wikipedia (full or mobile) or search Google
- Save abbreviations to favorites list for easy retrieval
- Search results update as you type
- Search for both abbreviations and definitions at the same time
- Easy browsing with the index
- Abbreviations are sorted and grouped by first letter
New abbreviations will be added to the application with future updates. The Medical Abbreviations application uses a community-supported database of abbreviations. To suggest abbreviations to the database or provide feature requests, please email us at medabbr@qdideas.com.
What's New in Version 1.3
New features in v1.3:
14045 meanings for 8118 abbreviations
Uses Wikipedia's beautiful new mobile version as a search option
New features in v1.2:
13612 meanings for 8043 abbreviations
Improved search performance (both abbreviation and meanings searched simultaneously)
New features in v1.1:
Favorites:
If you would like to refer to an abbreviation easily in the future, tap on the star at the top of the screen and the abbreviation will be added to your favorites list. To see your favorites, just tap the Favorites button at the top of the list of abbreviations.
Wikipedia search:
Abbreviations commonly have multiple associated terms. When you view the details of an abbreviation, each term is shown separately. Tapping a term will search in Wikipedia for and display the matching result or a list of possible results. The mobile version of Wikipedia is used to minimize downloading times and optimize viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Customer Reviews
Minim listing of Med Abbreviations
This is a relatively good listing of abbreviations specific to medicine. However, there tend to be more omissions than you would expect for a paid app. The database is severly lacking depending on the specialty such as Ob/Gyn. My biggest gripe is that you can't add your own abbreviations. This seems pretty intuitive for a paid app given some people make up their own abbreviations. This has to be in the next update, don't buy this app until that feature is added or else you'll be regreting the purchase.
Palliative Physician
Nice app, easily worth the 99 cents. Search feature is useful. Can the next update distinguish Joint Commission approved from unapproved abbreviations?
Needs ROS in notes
For the 5th star:
Include ROS as a separate category under notes, and charge a buck more!
Include those "a with a bar", "c with a bar", and others derived from Latin. They're in the screen shot but not in the app.
Reverse lookup would earn another dollar or two.
Great way to finance your education! Always keep in mind your patients' welfare (26 years in practice). Even when you just don't know, you can still help by caring.
- $0.99
- Category: Medical
- Updated: Mar 24, 2009
- Current Version: 1.3
- 0.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: QD Ideas, LLC
- © 2008 QD Ideas, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
