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MEDICAL DICTIONARIES UPDATE ----------------------------
Thanks to all the WOW readers who gave us their opinions
about medical dictionary supplements to Word.
There are several products around that will do the job
depending of the number of words supplied and variations
between US and UK spellings.
Alki http://www.alki.com has 'Microsoft Comprehensive
Spelling' which includes medical terminology among its
75,000 extra words covering various industries. These are
US spellings but some users 'over the pond' report few
problems.
One teacher of a college course with a medical terminology
component suggests Mosby's Medical Spellchecker - we could
not find it among the products listed at
http://www.mosby.com/
Spellex Medical 9.0 is also available - the same company
has a quarterly update service Spell-X-Plus
http://www.spellex.com
The heavy duty medical spell checker seems to be Stedmans
Plus 5.0 http://www.stedmans.com/ . It boasts over 432,000
total medical, pharmaceutical, and bioscience terms. Over
30,000 updated trade and generic drug names, 73,000
medical/surgical equipment terms and 60,000 bioscience
terms.
For a specific UK spelling dictionary there are a few
options:
Black Lab Software Word 97 Medical Spell Checker UK Edition
is well thought of, but we could not find a web site for
it.
Grebins Medical Word List - made in Australia and well
regarded 'down under' has 44,000 medical terms with UK
spellings. Our own My Computer Company ( [log in to unmask] )
in Sydney has stock.
We've not tested each of these products - but they appear
to work automatically inside Word (as they should),
supplementing the supplied Word speller file with
additional terms. Once installed it should seamlessly work
with the same Word spell checking features you are used to.
All the above are at least available for recent versions of
Word (v6, 95 and 97) for Windows and often Macintosh too.
Except for the Microsoft/Alki product there are versions
for Word-Perfect usually bundled into the one product.
Check that the product you buy matches your word processor
to save disappointment.
WOW is not in a position to evaluate the content of these
various products - our experience at medicine is limited to
dropping pants and saying 'Ahhhh' <g>.
From the messages we've received it seems that for
occasional or general use (eg by a pharmaceutical company
or other supplier) then one of the smaller dictionaries is
enough. But doctors or medical students understandably
need more comprehensive listings from Mosby's or Stedmans.
We suggest you check among your peers or teachers to find
out what they use or recommend.
The last, but not least, option is free. WOW reader, John
Clegg has compiled a medical dictionary of over 3,000 terms
that you're welcome to download from
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/john.clegg/meddic.zip (about
15k). John encourages contributions of additional terms to
add to this public list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank O'Reilly <[log in to unmask]>
To: GP-UK@SMTP [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 05 February 1998 10:17
Subject: Medical dictionary
A few months ago I saw a message which gave an internet address for a
medical dictionary that could be downloaded. Unfortunately I have not saved
this. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Frank O'Reilly
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