User Reviews: Dorland’s Medical Dictionary

Top reviews

  • Great

    Wonderful app. I use it many times daily.
  • Great dictionary

    A must have
  • Helpful

    I use it a lot to help study and for help with pronunciations.
  • Good app

    I have not used this app a lot but can say that almost every time I have looked up something, the definition was there.
  • Annoying

    Put in an update so I can shut off that word of the day
  • Disappointed

    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.
  • Excellent medical terminology!

    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"
  • Happy Gnostic

    As of May 20, 2015, this is now a fantastic medical dictionary in all aspects. I highly recommend you pay the extra money because it's worth it.

    But this company is apparently cutting their budget by cutting back on their staff, so if you update it when their next update is offered, you are sure to end up with a garbage dictionary that you never bargained for.

    I know this because it is the same company from whom I purchased their prior fabulous Webster's New World college dictionary, which used the same exact formatting. I just updated their version in May, 2015, and they turned that dictionary into a similar garbage dictionary that they offer for $4.99 which removed many of their terrific features.

    So don't let them fool you just because it says it's an update and that there are improvements, because that was a lie they told to induce me and others to update their Webster's New World College dictionary.

    Just be happy with the version you now have.
  • Good for health care students

    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 I'm thinking should I buy the full version- Dorland's 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.
  • Improved Icon

    This is the best medical dictionary I've 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!

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