ABBYY Lingvo vs Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

ABBYY Lingvo provides electronic dictionaries for work and study on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. Its Windows multilingual version covers 10 languages, while the multilingual Professional edition includes more than 80 general, explanatory, and specialist dictionaries. Listed specialist subjects include law, economics, finance, engineering, oil and gas, chemistry, medicine, and biology. Windows can translate words under the cursor in pictures, web pages, and subtitles. On macOS, translation is available through Services or keyboard shortcuts, with cursor translation in Safari. The mobile apps state that all functions work offline. Android supports photo and video translation and grammatical word forms; iOS can translate photographed text and sync user-created vocabulary cards across devices. Mobile pages offer five basic free dictionaries across English, German, French, Spanish, Latin, and Russian, with more available for purchase. Lingvo Tutor provides exercises for word meanings and spelling. The Windows x6 trial offers full access for 15 days from first launch. Listed Windows licenses are priced per edition and have a three-year term.

Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary is a free web resource for searching medical terms and abbreviations. Users can also browse entries alphabetically through A–Z and 0–9. Merriam-Webster presents it as a way to build medical vocabulary and become a more informed health-care consumer, describing the content as an up-to-date, comprehensive medical dictionary. Access is available on the web, Android, and iOS. Its Dictionary & Thesaurus app provides Medical, Legal, and Kids dictionary definitions through an in-app subscription. Listed app features include offline access, voice search, vocabulary quizzes, favorites, and search history. Users can look up words with the search bar or voice input, and favorite words can sync between devices. Medical Dictionary definitions appear within the app’s word-search results. The website’s free plan costs nothing for searching and browsing medical terms and abbreviations. App access is offered through a monthly or annual subscription, but the pages opened do not state its price. Merriam-Webster identifies itself as an Encyclopaedia Britannica company and says professional dictionary editors and writers support its products and services. Its policy says it does not sell personal information, while describing service-provider sharing and third-party advertising.