Where can I find a Web site that provides a comprehensive reference
for properly-hyphenated medical words? The site must contain the
correct spelling and capitalization of the hyphenated terms. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
05 Apr 2006 09:36 PDT
A page like this from an online medical dictionary is probably your best bet:
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/contents/C.html
This is the "c" page (obviously), but there are similar pages for the
rest of the alphabet (again, obviously).
By doing a Ctrl-F search down the page for a hyphen, you can quickly
hit all relevant entries to see that Cabot-Locke murmur has a
capitalized C and L, but a lower case m, and cafe-au-lait spot is all
lower case.
Does that meet your needs?
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
publicationfinder-ga
on
06 Apr 2006 06:05 PDT
Thank you pafalafa-ga. However, that site deals with medical terms
that are used only in UK English.
We are looking for a comprehensive listing of properly-hyphenated
medical words in US English.
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Request for Question Clarification by
hummer-ga
on
06 Apr 2006 07:12 PDT
Hi publicationfinder,
Have a look at Dorland's Medical Dictionary at the MerckSource
website. Both Merck and Dorland's are well respected resources in the
medical field. Start by clicking on the main alphabet links (A-B | C-D
| E-F | G-H ...) and then choose a subcategory (A - aberration).
Here are three examples of hyphenated terms found under F (F-actin -
farsightedness).
F-actin
Fahr-Volhard disease
end-stage renal f.
http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_f_02zPzhtm
How's that?
hummer
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Clarification of Question by
publicationfinder-ga
on
06 Apr 2006 08:19 PDT
Thanks hummer-ga.
This the type of information we are looking for. However, we only
need a LIST of properly-hyphenated medical words in US English.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
06 Apr 2006 09:33 PDT
publicationfinder-ga,
Your originaly question asked to be pointed to a website that contains
a reference source to meet your needs...this is a perfectly
appropriate question, given the price you've set.
If you would like a researcher to actually create such a list for you,
however, I suspect you will need to increase the price substantially,
before researchers will consider undertaking such a task.
Hope that clarifies the situation.
paf
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Clarification of Question by
publicationfinder-ga
on
06 Apr 2006 12:34 PDT
Thank you pafalafa-ga. However, we are not looking to have someone
create a new list of properly-hyphenated medical words.
We are looking for a Web site that already contains a list of
properly-hyphenated medical words.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
06 Apr 2006 12:59 PDT
Well...here's a possibility, then.
I found a downloadable, free, medical dictionary that can easily
create the sort of list you asked for.
Using wildcards, the dictionary will cleanly display a list of all its
hyphenated terms -- about 1,000 of them.
The list looks like this:
11-cis retinal
.
.
.
Aarskog-Scott syndrome
.
.
.
B19-PRCA
Babes-Ernst granules
Bacille Calmette-Guérin
BAO-MAO
Bevan-Lewis cells
Bezold-Jarisch reflex
.
.
.
.
and so on.
The software offers the option of a brief definition of each term, if
you care to see it, but the initial list itself only includes the
terms.
Be aware, though, that the list -- though readily visible -- cannot be
copy-and-pasted, as the software doesn't permit this.
Let me know what you think.
paf
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Clarification of Question by
publicationfinder-ga
on
07 Apr 2006 08:13 PDT
Thank you pafalafa-ga.
That might have to do. Please give us the Web site information for
the free medical dictionary that you mentioned.
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