From the Doctors at MedicineNet.com written for laypersons - includes more than 10,500 entries that are not only the usual standard medical terms but also pertinent scientific items, abbreviations, acronyms, jargon, institutions, projects, symptoms, syndromes, eponyms, medical history -- all having to do with medicine and the biomedical sciences, particularly anything of value and of interest. Written entirely by U.S. board certified physicians to be used by everyone concerned about health -their health and the health of those that matter to them.

The Pocket Medical Encyclopedia is brought to you in joined effort between MedicineNet and Beiks, two leading companies in the fields of medical reference content and mobile reference applications respectively.

It consists of two parts, the MedicineNet's Medical Encyclopedia and BDicty (pronounced "bi-dikti") - the general dictionary reader application, developed by Beiks. Here is some information for each of them:

MedicineNet's Medical Encyclopedia
version: 1.1

Written entirely by U.S. board certified physicians, this reference work includes more than 10,500 entries from the medical field. These include not only the usual standard medical terms but also pertinent scientific items, abbreviations, acronyms, jargon, institutions, projects, symptoms, syndromes, eponyms, medical history and particularly anything of value and of interest.