WebMD

A healthcare website, founded in 1996, that publishes news and information pertaining to human health and wellbeing.

Proper noun

  1. A healthcare website, founded in 1996, that publishes news and information pertaining to human health and wellbeing.

Origin

From Web + MD (“medical doctor”).

Verb

  1. To search for (something) on the WebMD healthcare website.
    • There had been signs. Dana saw them in 2008, when she was away attending American University. “We would have the same conversation three times in one day,” she recalled. B. also told her she felt a tingling in her face....
    • It’s like being scared of spiders and then constantly scanning every room you enter for spiders and WebMDing “spider bites side effects.” Or freaking out about the state of our democracy and studying the 25th Amendment...
    • And as you consulted the pediatrician and read child development books and WebMD’d your questions, you became familiar with the general time frame in which to expect many of those new skills to develop. - 2021, Lea Ann...

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