Is there a Medical Dictionary for OSX?

[projectle]

I am a college student who has just started into the medical field, and I am wondering if there is a plugin for Dictionary or another application entirely that would allow me to have a Medical Dictionary on my computer?

I do not really need something with definitions, I just need something that can handle my spell checking for my weekly papers that I need to hand in.

I realize that this is probably not the best place to ask, but the people who I asked in my class including my instructor said that I am pretty much out of luck unless I just want to search each one through a website.

What I would love is if there is something that would work with Pages, but I will live with Word if one exists.

Thank you in advance.

 

[yellow]

Yes, they exist.. a Google search should have shown you.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=medical+dictionary+mac+os+x&btnG=Google+Search

 

[projectle]

Yea, I saw those, however I was hoping for something a little on the cheaper side...

On another note, is there a tool for creating custom dictionaries for Dictionary?

I have tried to look for that one and found no results...

 

[yellow]

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is.. At least not for the Dictionary.app.
And at least not with XCode Tools or on the Apple Developer website.

 

[RedMacMan]

I've just started looking into doing the same thing, except customizing the Dictionary widget to create my own law dictionary. Both the Dictionary.app and Dictionary.widget reference the dictionary file located at

/Library/Dictionaries/New Oxford American Dictionary.dict

That file is a package which contains the following files:

dict_body
dictionary_1
Images/
Info.plist
ovrd_body
ovrd_index
PkgInfo
version.plist

The dict_body file is an xml fragment, and appears to be all the words in the dictionary. It references a namespace "http://oup.dataformat.com/doc/OUP_DTD_Dictionary.html". The base dataformat.com hostname is a company which provides content management services, and lists Oxford Dictionary as one of their clients, so I am assuming the XML data format is proprietary. The file dictionary_1 is binary, so I'm not sure how that fits into the puzzle.

It's too bad there's not any info about customization out there, because it would be a very handy thing to be able to do.

 

[mkrishnan]

I bought the Miller-Keane desk encyclopedia, and it came with a CD with Microsoft Word spelling libraries, but..grrr... one, they're on a mini-CD.... And grrr #2, God knows what they're made for, but it isn't Office 04.

 

[cuddlestick]

Med Terms

Hosford Medical Terms Dictionary (medterms)
http://www.ptcentral.com/university/medterms_zip.html
$3 Shareware .dic for Microsoft Word (works on OS X)