WebMD

English

Etymology

From Web +‎ MD (“medical doctor”).

Proper noun

WebMD

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

Verb

WebMD (third-person singular simple present WebMDs, present participle WebMDing, simple past and past participle WebMDed or WebMD'd)

1. (transitive) To search for (something) on the WebMD healthcare website.
   • 2019 January 28, Lavanya Ramanathan, “Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it.”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     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. “I WebMD’d it, and I said, ‘Oh, she has Alzheimer’s.’ ”

   • 2020 October 11, Elahe Izadi, “The news is driving you mad. And that’s why you can’t stop devouring it.”, in The Washington Post‎^[2]:

     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 at 3 a.m.

   • 2021, Lea Ann Garfias, Everything You Need to Know about Homeschooling: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Guide for the Journey from Early Learning through Graduation, Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, page 63:

     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.