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MedlinePlus

Search MedlinePlus

Search MedlinePlus health topics (U.S. National Library of Medicine): plain-language summaries for patients and families of conditions, symptoms, tests, treatments and wellness topics, in English and Spanish, from Assyro's daily copy. Use it for a personal or lay health question, to explain a condition simply, or for the Spanish wording of a topic. Find topics by words in the title, other names and summary, or by MedlinePlus topic group. Each result gives the topic, its summary and its MedlinePlus page. Call read_medlineplus_topic for the whole summary, related topics and MeSH headings. General health information, not medical advice.

get/v1/sources/medlineplus/search

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.assyro.com
  • Auth
    none declared

Query parameters

querystring

Words, e.g. "high blood pressure" or "sore throat".

language'English' | 'Spanish'

Only English or only Spanish topics (both by default).

groupstring

A MedlinePlus topic group, e.g. "Heart and Circulation" or "Symptoms".

limitinteger

Topics to return, default 6.

offsetinteger

Skip this many results (for paging), default 0.

Response

Matching records.

versionunknown required
totalinteger nullable required

Total matches the source reports, when it says.

notestring
summarystring[]

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.