Learn Medical Terminology app for iPhone and iPad

Check out this app dedicated to understanding the language of medicine. Find the meaning of each component of a medical word by scrolling or searching our extensive lists of prefixes, roots and suffixes. Ideal revision for City and Guilds (AMSPAR) Certificates in Medical Terminology and CMA (AAMA), AMRA Medical Terminology Exams.

Additional features include:


• A comprehensive list of associated words that are relevant to specific body systems with their meanings. These words are often used in combination with specific medical terms in patient records and medical publications.

• A set of approximately one thousand common abbreviations selected from medical records and notes

• A never ending medical terminology quiz that works offline so you can try question after question testing your knowledge of the meanings of prefixes, roots and suffixes just as fast or as often as you like. Scores are remembered from one session to the next so you can monitor your improvement.

• New to this version an extensive, searchable list of medical specialties and their meanings

• American and British spelling of medical terms

Suitable for premedical students, nursing students, medical secretaries, transcriptionists and allied health students in fact anyone with an interest in the language of medicine or medical education.