The On‐line Medical Dictionary

The On‐line Medical Dictionary (OMD) was created by Dr Graham Dark of the Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust. It is distributed by the CancerWEB project at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne under license from Academic Medical Publishing. It contains more than 46,000 definitions of terms relating to “biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science, and technology”.

The simplest way to find a term is to use the search box available on every page. Users are encouraged to enter a word or phrase as they would normally expect to see it written. They...