This is a dictionary of English medical terms for Hunspell. It is based on two prominent medical dictionary projects:
- OpenMedSpel by e-MedTools
- MTH-Med-Spel-Chek by Rajasekharan N. of MT-Herald
The two sources have been merged, deduplicated, corrected, and converted into a Hunspell dictionary file.
Number of Terms: 90142
Contents: drug names (up-to-date with FDA-approvals as of 2014-04-02, trade and generic names),
anatomical terms, dermatological terms, internal medicine terms, surgical terms,
DSM-IV terms, ICD-9 terms, and many more
Author: (c) 2014-2017 Aristotelis P. (https://github.com/Glutanimate)
Original Authors: (c) 2007-2014 R. Robinson <info@e-medtools.com>,
(c) 2009-2014 Rajasekharan N. <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Rajasekharan-N/>
Original Sources: - OpenMedSpel by R. Robinson of e-MedTools (Version 2.0.0, released 2014-01-21)
<http://www.e-medtools.com/openmedspel.html>
- MTH-Med-Spel-Chek by Rajasekharan N. of MT-Herald (released 2014-04-02)
<http://mtherald.com/free-medical-spell-checker-for-microsoft-word-custom-dictionary/>
License: GNU GPL v3 (see LICENSEs for more information)
git clone https://github.com/Glutanimate/hunspell-en-med-glut.git
cd hunspell-en-med-glut
sudo cp en_med_glut.dic '/usr/share/hunspell/en_med_glut.dic'
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/dictionaries-common/hunspell
sudo cp hunspell-en-med-glut /var/lib/dictionaries-common/hunspell/hunspell-en-med-glut
###Usage
From the command-line:
hunspell -d en_US,en_med_glut -a < input_file.txt
This software comes with no warranty of any kind. Some misspelled words might be included.
The following bugs might prevent this dictionary from working properly with LibreOffice:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-support-extra-de/+bug/363619
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/329968
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/medicalterms/+bug/401423
If you are experiencing any of these you might want to try my workaround dictionary, instead.