What does “nephrolithiasis” mean? Well, you can easily find out by googling it. But learning how to decipher the greek and latin roots would mean that you would be able to figure it out without depending on Google. This dictionary I made will probably be most beneficial for med students who already use Obsidian to take notes, but it’s still a very interesting tool in my opinion.
I made a video explaining it: Interactive medical terminology dictionary using Obsidian.MD
The download link for the dictionary is in the video description. I’m not sure of the best way to share it, but I’m pretty sure I got my reddit post shadow banned because I used Megadrive, so I’m not going to link it directly. If anyone knows the best way to share the folder, that’d be great.
This was inspired by two videos:
This dictionary contains a file for each of the ~600 latin and greek roots most commonly used in medical terms. All you have to do is link to them to have a quick and accessible way of seeing how they work together to form any given medical term.
[[nephr-]]o-[[lith-]][[-iasis]] would yield you “disease of stones in the kidneys”.
The video explains the many other features and how to use them, but I’ll describe the highlights briefly:
- There is a dataview query contained within each latin/greek root file that queries for any medical terms that derive from it. I find this useful for giving real life examples of said root so I can more easily learn it.
- I also used dataview queries to organize the root words alphabetically so you could look up words the old-fashioned way if you wanted.
- Idk, it’s just a dumb dictionary, nothing more to it. I just wanted to share it because I figured someone else might find it interesting.
Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions! (And drink more water, so you don’t get nephrolithiasis!)
Vault github download
Online demo vault hosted courtesy of OurBrain. Unfortunately lacks dataview functionality