Preface
- Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word Problems
- Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word
- Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word Documents
- Free Spelling Dictionary
- Medical Dictionary Spell Check For Word
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.
Free Medical Dictionary Spell Checker allows you to spell check medical terms with the built in medical dictionary software search feature. Free Medical Dictionary Spell Checker includes the. Search medical terms and abbreviations with the most up-to-date and comprehensive medical dictionary from the reference experts at Merriam-Webster. Master today's medical vocabulary. Authoritative pronunciations.
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:
Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word Problems
- 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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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.
How does it work?
Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word
Is it easy to install?
Medical Spelling Dictionary For Word Documents
How do I know it's working?
Free Spelling Dictionary
Do you offer updates?
Medical Dictionary Spell Check For Word