Entries include medical terms, abbreviations, acronyms, measurements, and more.
Pronunciation and word etymology (showing mostly Latin and Greek prefixes and roots) are provided with most definitions.
In 1903, Thomas Lathrop Stedman became the editor of the medical dictionary and made thorough revisions to the text.
The first edition of Stedman's Medical Dictionary was published in 1911.
This edition added over 5,000 new terms and definitions to total to more than 107,000 entries.