Steps to use the UMD data cetner form:
You can suggest new medical terms, information about an existing term or a meaning, or new relationships between different terms.
Steps to use the UMD Data center form:
1 – You should have the Microsoft InfoPath already installed on your PC.
2 - Download the UMD data center form into your local PC and open it in the MS-InfoPath
3 - You may add as many terms as you want to. How to use this form?
4 - You can send the form (XSN file) to umd@emro.who.int . The UMD team will validate and integrate your data with the main UMD linguistics’ database.
Thank you for your effort to improve the UMD database.
Each meaning of a term has a row (record) that has the following elements:
Term: the word to be added to the UMD database
Category: the category this meaning belongs to.(Surgery, Histology, Prefixes…)
Part of Speech: Noun, verb, pronoun, adjective…
Date: You may add the date of entry as a reminder
Terms relations:
You may add as many relationships as you know with other terms
Relationshiop:Derivation, translation, antonym…
Term: the related term
Example: For the term blood a translation relationship is added with the Turkish word “KAN”
Term parameters:
You may add extra information about this term.
Parameter: the type of information. Example: Meaning of the term, Gender, etymology…
Param value: the information you are adding
Example: For the term Infant a parameter called “Meaning” as added with the value “A minor”
Clicking on the link labeled “Insert item” will open a record to add a new word, a new relationship with another word, or new information for the current word (parameter)
For more information, please contact the UMD team