Spell checking medical documents can be a real pain. My spelling at the best of times is atrocoius atrocious. Luckily most software, even browsers now support spell checking. The problem is now getting hold of a good medical dictionary to use with your application. Now e-medtools.com a site which specialises in medical spell checking, medical proformas and PDA software have made a 40 000 word dictionary available for free under the GPL licence. Up until their product for MS word was only available with a $10 single user licence.
The dictionary is US english and despite its size and missing some of my favourite nephrology terms I think it is a start. I will post an addendum of UK English medical terms in due course.
- Diseases Treatments Dictionary (Offline) is an Android Medical App that is developed by Smart Training and published on Google play store on Dec 14, 2018. It has already got around 10,000+ downloads so far with an average rating of 4.0 out of 5 in play store.
- The Free Online English Dictionary from Macmillan Education. Definitions, meanings, synonyms, pronunciations, games, sound effects, high-quality images, idioms and metaphors, resources for teachers and students.
CNET Download provides free downloads for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices across all categories of software and apps, including security, utilities, games, video and browsers. 'Big dictionary very scholarly. I purchased this app about a year ago and then upgraded to get all of the optional dictionaries of legal, medical etc. I am a full-time professional Spanish/English interpreter and I have used this application hundreds of times.
How to Download the dictionary
The dictionary which can be found here {Opens in a new window} should be downloaded, unzipped and saved in a folder. I would suggest saving it in your “My Documents” folder perhaps in a folder called “My Dics”
How To install it in MS Word 2003
Load Word and follow the following menu options
Mobile Medical Dictionary
Tools>>Options>> Spelling and Grammar>> Custom Dictionaries>>Add
Browse to the folder you have created, you will need to change the file type filter from *.DIC to *.* and your dictionary will appear.
How to install in Firefox 2
Free Medical Dictionary Download For Pc
This is a little more complicated. From the Windows taskbar
Start>>Search>>For files and Folders>>'PERSDICT.DAT'
Select the PERSDICT.DAT file, you may have more than one if you share your computer, click on it to open it, if you are asked which program to open it with select WordPad. This is your firefox custom dictionary file. (which will be empty if you have never added any words.) Then open the “OpenMedSpel 100.txt” file which you downloaded in another instance of WordPad and copy all the words by pressing CTRL-A, then CTRL-C, switching to the PERSDICT.DAT file, clicking in the windows pane to gain the application’s focus and pressing CTRL-V. Save the file and you are finished.
To spell check a form in Firefox you can either right click and ask for the form to be spell checked or you can select it from
Tools>>Options>>Advanced>>General>>'Check my spelling as I type'
Free Medical Dictionary Download
Other Dictionary Packages
- Hosford Medical Terms Dictionary A smaller but still excellent US English dictionary (10 000 words) which is shareware (only $3 by Paypal)
- Spellex Commerical offering: £55 per single user