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- 2026-10-09
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Medical Glossary Tooltips: offline hover definitions for med-school cards
AnkiWeb addon 1611208613
Hovering medical terms on cards shows offline definitions, sources, small images and Wikipedia links, with cloze-aware suppression of spoilers and coverage of roughly 98,000 concepts.
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- Last update or commit: 2026-10-09 (23 days before the snapshot).
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| 2.1.50 | 25.09.4+ | 2026-10-09 |
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Description
Hover any medical term on your cards for a short definition — fully offline, no account, no subscription.
Terms on your cards get a subtle dotted underline. Hover one to see a one-to-two sentence definition, where it comes from, a small picture (when one exists) and a link to the Wikipedia article. Click a term to pin the tooltip open.
What it covers
About 98,000 concepts across preclinical and clinical medicine:
- MeSH (U.S. National Library of Medicine) — diseases, drugs, physiology, general medicine
- Uberon — detailed anatomy (muscles, nerves, vessels, structures)
- Gene Ontology — cell biology: organelles, processes, pathways
- ChEBI — biochemistry: metabolites, molecules, drugs
- Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) — clinical signs and abnormal findings
- Wikipedia — first sentences for terms the vocabularies miss (biostatistics, physics, histology)
- ~260 definitions from the author's own med-school cards
It works on any deck — new cards included — because terms are matched against the built-in glossary when the card is shown. Nothing is written to your notes.
Built for studying
- No spoilers: nothing inside a hidden cloze is underlined, and on the question side any tooltip that would name the hidden answer is suppressed.
- Not noisy: everyday words ("pressure", "rate", "wave") and first-year basics (ATP, glucose, DNA) are not underlined; only the first occurrence of a term per card is.
- Longest match wins: "acute kidney injury" is one term, not "kidney". Plurals are recognised; acronyms (AKI, ATP) match exact case only.
- Fast: ~0.1 ms per card. The glossary loads in the background when your profile opens.
Settings
Tools → Glossary: toggle highlights turns it on/off. Tools → Add-ons → Config has first_only and show_images.
Notes
- Desktop only (AnkiMobile / AnkiDroid cannot run add-ons). English terms.
- Works fully offline; the add-on never contacts the internet.
- Definitions are the sources' own wording, shortened (HPO definitions are shown in full). They are study aids, not clinical advice.
- About 40 MB once installed (glossary + thumbnails).
Credits and licences
Glossary data: CC BY-SA 4.0, except HPO content, which stays under the HPO licence (code: MIT). MeSH courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (definitions shortened; not endorsed by NLM). Uberon CC BY 3.0 · Gene Ontology CC BY 4.0 · ChEBI (EMBL-EBI) CC BY 4.0 · Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0 · Human Phenotype Ontology release 2026-09-01 (© P. Robinson, S. Köhler, the HPO Consortium and the Monarch Initiative; used under the HPO licence, terms and definitions unaltered). Every image is a freely licensed Wikimedia Commons file, credited with author and licence under the image; non-free images are excluded. Full details in CREDITS.md inside the add-on folder.