Medical book
A medical book or medical text was a reference book whose subject was medicine.

In 2153,  recognized characters on a sample box as Denobulan, having seen similar writing in Phlox's medical books. ()

In 2155, John Frederick Paxton worried that it would only be a matter of time before rampant cross-breeding between Humans and aliens rendered the term "Human"
worthy only of a footnote in a medical text. ()

In 2267, James T. Kirk commented on Doctor Leonard McCoy's usage of a right hook to "convince" Eleen to let him examine her, saying he'd never seen that procedure in a medical book. McCoy replied, "It's in mine from now on." ()

As of 2371, The Doctor's holoprogram contained the complete Bajoran medical text on Orkett's disease. He was thereby able to determine that a Cardassian bone marrow transplant could not be responsible for Cardassian genetic markers in Seska's blood, and therefore Seska was Cardassian, not Bajoran. ()

By 2372, Joseph Sisko had had so many of his original organs replaced by synthetic ones that he expected all of them to be replaced in a year or two,
something he felt would earn him a write-up in the medical books. ()

In 2374, The Doctor criticized Tom Paris for playing on the holodeck when he was behind in his studies of medical texts. ()
Scientific literature
Medicine
Literature genres