MediYap

A Rust library for decoding medical terminology into plain English by breaking down prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

Features

• Decode complex medical terms into readable explanations
• (fairly) Extensive dictionary of medical prefixes, suffixes, and roots
• Zero dependencies
• Well-tested
• Incredible cli

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
mediyap = "0.1.1"

Usage

use mediyap::MedicalDecoder;

fn main() {
    let decoder = MedicalDecoder::new();

    println!("{}", decoder.decode("hypoglycemia"));
    // Output: low glucose/sugar presence in blood

    println!("{}", decoder.decode("tachycardia"));
    // Output: fast heart

    println!("{}", decoder.decode("nephritis"));
    // Output: kidney inflammation
}

As a CLI Tool

After installation, you can use the mediyap command:

# Decode a single term
mediyap hypoglycemia
# Output: hypoglycemia: low glucose/sugar presence in blood

# Decode multiple terms
mediyap tachycardia bradycardia nephritis
# Output:
# tachycardia: fast heart
# bradycardia: slow heart
# nephritis: kidney inflammation

# Interactive mode (no arguments)
mediyap
# MediYap - Interactive Mode
# Enter medical terms to decode (Ctrl+D or Ctrl+C to exit):
#
# > hypoglycemia
# → low glucose/sugar presence in blood
#
# > arthritis
# → joint inflammation

Examples

Supported Components

Prefixes

• hypo- (low)
• hyper- (high)
• brady- (slow)
• tachy- (fast)
• a-/an- (without)
• poly- (many)
• oligo- (few)
• And many more...

Suffixes

• -emia (presence in blood)
• -itis (inflammation)
• -uria (presence in urine)
• -pathy (disease)
• -penia (deficiency)
• -algia (pain)
• -ectomy (surgical removal)
• And many more...

Root Words

• glyc/gluc (glucose/sugar)
• card/cardi (heart)
• hem/hemat (blood)
• nephr/ren (kidney)
• gastr (stomach)
• hepat (liver)
• And many more...

Running Tests

cargo test

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit pull requests to add more medical terms or improve the decoding logic.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. Read the LICENSE file for more info.