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Joseph who is a
Turns out OS X's built in Dictionary has the ability to add custom dictionaries, but not much support.
I could not find any resources distributing Mac OS X .dictionary files
  There is an open source project called StarDict and they have some repositories of dictionaries.
  They are a bit hard to find, but here is a directory
  The medical one I could find is under 'Babylon' (another project) --> Health Dictionaries
  Also are computing, language, biblical, and other dictionaries in the project.
StarDict files are not OS X Dictionary compatible
  Luckily there is a converter. DictUnifier
  Under the Mac Dictionary Kit Google Project
  I had mixed results with the latest 2.0b3 version
There is a big opportunity here
Apple Developer Docs on "Dictionary Services"
OS X Dictionary files use and XML schema and can be built fairly easily with a basic text editor
The files then get "compiled" using a command line tool
Download Apple's developer tools
  Developer-->Extras-->Dictionary Development Kit
  There is a project-template folder that contains the basic stuff
    XML, CSS, PLIST, and MAKE file.
    "other resources" folder for images, XSL, Preferences (for in Dictionary app)
Once you have a valid .Dictionary file
  Installed in ~/Library/Dictionaries