Medical Spell Files

Medical spell files that are Vim-compatible.

How to get a medical spell file for vim

Step 1: Download a vim spell file (with the .spl extension). You must place this file in the correct location. On most Linux machines, this will be ${HOME}/.vim/spell. You can place the English medical spell file medical.utf-8.spl from this repository in that directory by running:

curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/melvio/medical-spell-files/main/spell/medical.utf-8.spl" --output "${HOME}/.vim/spell/medical.utf-8.spl"

Step 2: Configure Vim's spelllang to include the medical spell file. You can add a line like this to your vimrc:

set spelllang=en_us,medical

Step 3: Start your happy vimming. If you don't have spell checks enabled by default, run the following command inside vim:

:set spell

Encountered any issues? Room for improvement? Your feedback is welcomed over here.

Metadata

Metadata	Values
Terms:	98127 (in medical.utf-8.spl)
Last Updated	medical spell file: Tue 07 Sep 2021
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
	Many more terms added
Author:	(c) 2021- Melvin Hazeleger https://github.com/melvio/
Work Derived From:	(c) 2014-2017 Aristotelis P. https://github.com/Glutanimate
	(c) 2007-2014 R. Robinson info@e-medtools.com
	(c) 2009-2014 Rajasekharan N.
Original Sources:	OpenMedSpel by R. Robinson of e-MedTools (Version 2.0.0, released 2014-01-21)
	MTH-Med-Spel-Chek by Rajasekharan N. of MT-Herald (released 2014-04-02)
License

Special Thanks

Thanks go out to Artistotelis P. for providing the initial version of the English medical spell file. Who, in turn, derived it from R. Robinson and Rajasekharan N. Thanks to Bram Moolenaar for his work on Vim, his charity work, and for inspiring me to create this repository.

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