In order to check medical spelling errors, you have to type a word in the provided text box. As you type your first letter, it starts giving you suggestions. Hence, you can select the correct spelling from the number of available choices. If the matching word doesn’t appear, try deleting the last letter. Medical Dictionary is intended for use by healthcare consumers, students, and professionals as well as anyone who wants to keep up with the burgeoning array of terminology found in today’s medical news. By staying clear of jargon, the dictionary offers fast and concise information, whether the user is searching for a description of an over-the-counter or prescription medication, a medical.
Preface
Without a medical spell checker installed, it is irritating to transcribe with MS Word with those red underscores all over the document. You get frustrated adding such underlined words every time to the inbuilt custom dictionary of Microsoft Word by right clicking and adding. To avoid such repeated annoyance, the more permanent solution would be installing a medical spell checker itself which works in the background.
So for the last month, I have been scouring the net for any free, installable, medical spell checker software for Microsoft Word. After all, it’s going to be a free download! So it’s worth wasting the time sieving through the Internet.
By the way, I am a radiology transcriptionist. With radiology transcription, you don’t encounter complex new medical words daily. You’ll have stereotype reports that can be done without a spell checker. So I didn’t go for a medical spell checker for my computer all this time.
The making of a free medical spell checker
Nevertheless, with my current endeavor of an extensive search on the Internet, I couldn’t end up with any such free, medical spelling check software compatible with MS Word. All that I could find all over the Internet are paid ones or shareware. They would work for one month or so and then expire. The only other option left behind was to prepare a custom dictionary for medical transcription. A collection of medical words in US English that could work in tandem with Microsoft Word. Thus a free custom medical spell checker for medical transcription in US English by a medical transcriptionist was born!
The idea was successful. At first, I was able to gather medical terms lists from Open Source Medical Spelling Word List. It has around 50,000 words, updated until 2007. I had medical words from my own personal collection and custom dictionary. Accommodating all these medical words, the number of words worked out close to 100,000 after filtering out duplicate entries.
New words come into prevalence in the field of medicine on a daily basis. Hence all the words may not have found their way into this medical glossary. Especially, all those trade names and the names of all those complex surgical instruments. If you have any list of such recent medical terms or surgical equipment glossary, mail me to add them in the future versions. Now the installation instructions of our custom medical dictionary.
Download link and installation instructions:
- Download Raj&Co-Med-Spel-Chek.zip (687044 downloads) and save it to your desktop.
- Unzip the inside contents, Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic and README_Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.txt (license), to your desktop.
- Copy the dictionary file, Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic, to the folder where CUSTOM.DIC resides in your system. In my desktop (Windows XP), I found it at C:Documents and SettingsRajApplication DataMicrosoftProof. In my laptop (Windows Vista), it is at C:UsersRajAppDataRoamingMicrosoftProof. So check where the folder “Proof” is there in your system and transfer Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic to that folder.
- If the folder “Proof” is not showing up, it will be hiding as a system folder. In that case, go to Tools/Folder Options/View. Click “Show hidden files and folders.” For some others, this folder name is “UProof.”
- Now open MS Word. Go to Tools/Options/Spelling & Grammar/Custom Dictionaries.
- Check the slot Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic. Click OK.
- Refer the image below for which slots that need to be checked and unchecked. Make sure to uncheck the slots “Suggest from main dictionary only” and “Hide spelling errors in this document.” Click OK.
- That’s it. Voila! Enjoy working with the free medical spell checker.
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Citrix receiver app store. Spread the word if you find it useful. I took the utmost care to avoid any error at my end. However, if you find any inconsistency that has crept through, feel free to bring it to my attention to rectify the mistakes in the future versions. We have had an elaborate discussion below on troubleshooting with various operating systems. Click “View Comments” below. Sieve through them until the end of this page if you want any specific help regarding your computer’s operating system. I do update the spell checker whenever I have ample new words. So stay tuned for alerts about the future revisions of the spell checker. Subscribe to my feed or follow me on social media.
Update (July 16, 2014): Earlier I had put this free spell checker on my other blog, MT Herald. Since I am closing down mtherald.com, I have moved this custom medical dictionary to my new site here.
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.
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
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
Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word Documents
Karl lagerfeld fashion sketches. 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.
Compressed pc games free download blogspot. 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'
Look Up Spelling Word Dictionary
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
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