Diskettes (3.5 in. or 5.25 in.) with instruction sheet. Orem, Utah, WordPerfect, 1993. System needed: IBM PC/DOS or a compatible system with WordPerfect for DOS 5.0 or higher or Windows 5.0 or higher, with at least 600 Kb of hard-disk space. $39 (single user). Stedman's/25 Plus Version 1.0b. Diskettes (3.5 in. or 5.25 in.) with instruction sheet. Cambridge, Mass., Softkey International, 1992. System needed: IBM PC/DOS or a compatible system with at least 634 Kb of hard-disk space (Microsoft Word for Windows) or at least 440 Kb RAM and 1 Mb of hard-disk space (WordPerfect for DOS). Macintosh version also available. $99 (single user); $345 (multiple users).
Word-processing packages usually have a built-in program tocheck the spelling of general English terms. However, such programsdo not meet the needs of the medical profession, since manymedical terms are not included. Programs designed to check thespelling of medical terms overcome this problem. These programscontain approximately 140,000 medical terms, drug names, eponyms,and abbreviations, most of them unfamiliar to the built-in spell-checkprogram. Examples of such terms are ECG, -agonist, uveitis,herniorrhaphy, caesarean, ELISA, drosophila, chloramphenicol,and adenocarcinoma. Thus, a medical spell-check program is nothingmore than a long list of medical terms appended to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
-agonist, uveitis, herniorrhaphy, caesarean, ELISA, drosophila, chloramphenicol, and adenocarcinoma. Thus, a medical spell-check program is nothing more than a long list of medical terms appended to the 
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