# Medical add-on for MS Word dictionary

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-add-on-for-ms-word-dictionary/441123>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-add-on-for-ms-word-dictionary/441123 "2008-03-12T16:57:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-add-on-for-ms-word-dictionary/441123/1 "2008-03-12T16:57:41Z")

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A lot of my work involves translating medical documents. The abundance of specialized terms means that the spell-check/grammar check is next to useless for its intended function, since I spend 95% of my time telling it to accept various medical words. I’m wondering if anyone’s aware of an add-on containing a good stock of medical vocabulary (especially drug names) that I could use.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-add-on-for-ms-word-dictionary/441123/2 "2008-03-12T19:22:26Z")

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I believe that both Dorland’s and Stedman’s both have medical spell checkers. I haven’t used them myself; I have just the regular Stedman’s electronic dictionary, which has served my purposes for a medical reference. I think DOrland’s is slightly more popular among medical editors.