Medical Dictionaries for MS Word

[Mary the Med Student]

I have spent a lot of time tonight searching for some sort of spell-check dictionary plug in for MS Word. Anyone ever found one?

-Mary

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[PTjay]

i had to buy a medical dictionary over the summer and although i don't remember what it is called it is soft cover (kind of plastic), dark green, with gold lettering. inside the back cover there is a disk that allows you to install the dictionary into word. it won't spell correct but when a word is marked as incorrect you can click a button and check it in the dictionary.

works well enough, if i find the name of the dictionary which is a good resource in and of itself i'll post back.

 

[cheech10]

I haven't tried it yet, but I think you can find one at

<a href="http://www.ptcentral.com/university/medterms_zip.html" target="_blank">http://www.ptcentral.com/university/medterms_zip.html</a>

It's shareware and should work for any version of Word. Let me know how it works if you use it.

 

[dingiswayo]

i had to buy a medical dictionary over the summer and although i don't remember what it is called it is soft cover (kind of plastic), dark green, with gold lettering. inside the back cover there is a disk that allows you to install the dictionary into word. ••

PTJay is thinking of Steadman's Medical Dictionary.

 

[Mary the Med Student]

Rock on cheech10 - the spellcheck dictionary works like a charm. No more struggling through papers with my spellchecker stumbling over every freaking sentance.

-Mary

 

[b-real]

PTjay may be thinking of the 19th edition of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

 

[cchoukal]

AT my old job we used a product called Spellex, which has dictionaries for all sorts of specialty areas (e.g., law, engineering, etc.). The medicine was pretty comprehensive. Don't recall the cost... try <a href="http://www.spellex.com" target="_blank">www.spellex.com</a>

 

[Kluver Bucy]

Thanks, Cheech. That spelling list contained 9883 words.
That's only a fraction of the 370,000 that Spellex has, but it seems to have some of the most common ones and, best of all, it's free.

 

[cheech10]

Glad to help. I installed it, and it's really helped. Now if I found one with the standard english spellings (tumour, etc.) I'd be *very* happy.