XTerm Medical Dictionary

XTerm Medical Dictionary represents a database filled with terms and definitions found in medicine. It can be of assistance to pre-med students, for instance.

Once the brief installation procedure is done, you can check out the standard interface with the simple layout. The medical dictionary is automatically loaded into the database, so you can easily look for particular terms, since they are displayed in alphabetical order.

Alternatively, you can just jump to a specific word by using a real-time search function. Definitions with graphical representations can be submitted to printing but you cannot copy them to the Clipboard or export them to an external file (e.g. TXT, RTF, DOC, PDF).

You can filter the searching procedure by using wildcards, search for words found within definitions, as well as view a history list of all items you have looked up.

A few options can be configured from the Settings screen. For example, you can enable the app to save the main window's position, show hints in the status bar and to save the searching options. You can specify the number of items to keep in the history list and increase the text size, as well as establish the number of weeks for an update reminder. All preferences can be restored to their factory values.

XTerm Medical Dictionary includes a help file and needs a low-to-moderate amount of CPU and system memory to work properly, so it shouldn't be an issue for the computer's overall performance. It has a good response time. No error dialogs have been shown in our evaluation and the app did not hang or crash. Thanks to its intuitive layout and overall simplicity, XTerm Medical Dictionary can be handled even by users with little or no experience in software apps.