These
terms were chosen because of their wide usage in the community as found from
usability testing (Moon & Fisher, 2005).
Both products give a list of synonyms as a pop-up box as seen in Figures 2-4.
A search for the query on skizophrenia produced the following lists:
??? Sacciformis
??? Schizophrenic
??? Schizophrenics
??? Shakespeareans
As can be seen, there were four words prompted and they were matched according
to the sounds. The word Shakespeareans seems rather inappropriate in this list.
It would also be useful if those hits offered a description of what each word meant.
For instance, what is sacciformis? Upon looking it up in a medical dictionary with-
Figure 3. Spellex search on ???Tamoxifen???
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out suffix, sacciform is ???bag-shaped??? or ???like a sac??? (Davis, 1981), which is also
useless in medical context.
Typing a common drug for breast cancer ???Tamoxifen??? spelled as ???Tomoxifen??? gave
out the following options:
??? Tensopin
??? timespan
??? TinCoBen
??? Tamoxifen
??? Temazepan
An intelligent guess is required to select Tamoxifen as the correct word, as there
is no description of definition of any of the options offered.
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