The lexicon contains 17,115 Dutch words from the medical domain, comprising 12,638 nouns, 3,107 adjectives, 1,273 verbs, 11 adverbs and 86 items from other categories. It complies with the official Dutch Spelling (2005/6). Each entry contains an ID, word form and part of speech. The lexicon is delivered in human-readable UNIX ANSI-format, with just a linefeed at the end of every line instead of a carriage return. The character set used is ISO Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1). All fields are separated by horizontal tabs, with no empty fields.