Reference, not diagnosis
It explains the medicine. It doesn't diagnose, prescribe or plan treatment for a specific patient.
HosTalky Meditionary
Look it up in seconds.
Meditionary is the clinical reference inside HosTalky. Search a condition, medication, procedure, guideline or acronym and get a structured entry, organized for your role and the region you practice in.
Shaped by what you search
Conditions, medications, procedures, guidelines and terms each get their own structure.
Organized for your role
Physician, nurse, pharmacist or allied health: what matters to you comes first.
Set to where you practice
Regional guidance by default, and you can change the region anytime.
English and Portuguese
Search and read entries in either language.
How Meditionary works
Built for the people inside medicine.
Most medical dictionaries explain terms to people outside the profession. Meditionary is built for the people in it: it works out what you meant and answers at a professional level.
Search
A condition, drug, procedure, guideline or acronym.
Clarify
If it could mean more than one thing, pick the one you meant.
Read
A structured entry, with what matters in your role up top.
Explore
Jump to clinically related concepts.
Continue
Ask MediGenie, with the entry already in context.
Search and filters
Narrow it down, in your language.
Search a term and filter by category, from body parts to surgery. Switch between English and Portuguese, and pick up where you left off with your recent lookups.
- Filter by categoryNarrow a search to conditions, medications, procedures, tests and more.
- English and PortugueseSwitch the language of your search at any time.
- Recent lookupsYour latest searches are one tap away on the home screen.
Ambiguity handling
MS? Meditionary asks before it answers.
Medicine is full of abbreviations that mean different things on different wards. When a search could mean more than one thing, Meditionary shows the likely interpretations first, so the entry you read is the one you meant.
- Likely meanings firstA short list of interpretations, each labeled by type, before anything is generated.
- The right structure followsChoose a condition and you get a condition entry. Choose a drug and you get a medication entry.
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Structured entries
Medicine doesn't fit one template.
A drug needs interactions and monitoring. A procedure needs preparation and complications. A guideline needs its issuer, its date and the strength of each recommendation. Meditionary shapes every entry around what you searched, so you scan clinical sections instead of a wall of text.
- Concise clinical bulletsThe essentials up front, with expandable sections when you need to go deeper.
- Guidelines with their contextIssuing organization, jurisdiction, date, population, thresholds and grade.
Occupation-aware
Same evidence. Different emphasis.
A physician, a nurse and a pharmacist looking up the same drug need the same facts, just not in the same order. Meditionary reads the occupation on your HosTalky profile and brings forward what matters in your role. The clinical facts never change.
- Your role sets the orderDiagnostic decision points for physicians, monitoring and red flags for nurses, interactions and dosing for pharmacists.
- Professional by defaultNo occupation on your profile? You still get a healthcare-professional entry, never a consumer explanation.
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Related concepts and MediGenie
Keep going without starting over.
Related concepts are grouped by how they connect clinically, and each one opens its own entry. When your question turns into a conversation, MediGenie picks it up with the entry as context, so you never have to repeat the subject.
- Every concept opens its own entryRelated terms sit at the end of each entry, one tap away.
- MediGenie takes the conversationMeditionary answers the reference question. MediGenie picks it up with the entry as context.
Clinical guardrails
A reference, not a prescription.
Meditionary is built to inform your clinical judgment, never to replace it.
Uncertainty stays visible
Emerging evidence is labeled as emerging, and uncertain evidence is never presented as settled.
Report a mistake
Spot something off? Report it straight from the entry so our team can review it.
Meditionary FAQ
Questions clinicians ask before they rely on it.
What is Meditionary?
Meditionary is the clinical reference built into HosTalky. Search a condition, medication, procedure, guideline or medical term and get a structured entry written at a healthcare-professional level, on your phone or desktop.
How is it different from a medical dictionary?
A dictionary defines a term. Meditionary tells a professional what to know about it: the structure changes with what you searched, the emphasis follows your role and ambiguous searches are clarified first.
Does the entry change with my profession?
The emphasis does, the facts don't. Meditionary uses the occupation on your HosTalky profile to decide what comes first and which terms to use, so a physician, a nurse and a pharmacist see the same evidence in the order that suits their role.
How does it handle different countries?
Meditionary sets a default region from your profile and location, and you can change it at any time. Regional differences matter most for screening, vaccination, drug names and availability, guidelines and referral pathways. When recommendations differ between organizations, Meditionary shows which one says what.
Can Meditionary tell me how to treat my patient?
No. Meditionary is a reference, not a prescription: it doesn't diagnose, prescribe or plan treatment for a specific patient. For deeper or case-specific questions you can continue in MediGenie, always applying your own clinical judgment.
What happens when I tap Ask MediGenie?
MediGenie opens with the Meditionary entry as context, so you can ask your follow-up without repeating the subject. MediGenie has limited usage on the Free plan and is unlimited on Pro and above.
Is Meditionary free?
Yes. Meditionary is included in every HosTalky plan, including Free, on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. See pricing.
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