http://www.tc215wg3.nhs.uk/pages/docs/isotc215wg3_n316.pdf

This article was written by Josef Ingenerf and Siegfried J. Poppl from the Institute of Medical Informatics at the University of Lubeck, Germany. The article was published by MEDINFO in 2007. The article is clearly written and subheadings makes it organized and easy to follow. The article expresses the need for biomedical vocabularies in the medical field. The article is reference. There are no links present, however there is an email address for the author.

One of my favorite quotes from the article is "Compositional terminologies behave like Legos. Basic building blocks can be used for virtually all purposes according to given instructions."

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1485924&pageindex=1

This article was written by David Gunn a fourth-year medical student from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. It was published in 1993 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. This article makes light of the use of big words in medicine and how they can be very confusing to patients. The article is fun to read and easy to follow. It does not include references, links or contacts.

I like this article. One of my favorite statements is, "Big words are used to impress the uninitiated or to conceal ignorance. " This statement surely makes one think.

http://www.smw.ch/docs/pdf200x/2002/41/smw-10027.pdf

This article is an up-to-date view of Latin as the language of medicine. The article is very clear to follow and offers a variety of sub-headings for organization. The article was written by Elena Mareckova and Ladislav Cerveny who are with the Department of Languages, Faculty of Medicine from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and Frantisek Simon, Department of Languages, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic. The article is a peer reviewed article which was publiched in the Swiss Medical Weekly in 2002. The article is referenced, but no links or contacts are available.

I like this article because it spells out how Latin is very deep-rooted in medical terminology.

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/about/front/medterms.html

This is a website that assist in understanding medical terms. The site is sponsored by Merck &
Company (1995-2009). The article states that knowing the meaning of a small number of components can help with the interpretation of a large number of medical terms. The site is easy to follow and provides a list of common medical prefixes, roots and suffixes. The site is not referenced but does have a contact for Merck. The last revision on the site was February 2003.

I can see where this site could be useful to the public. Because Merck is a recognizable name I feel that people would feel confident from what they learned from the site.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/word/

This was a different website I found using google search. It was found under KidsHealth. The instructions are to click on the virtual glossary for lots of easy-to-read definitions. When I clicked on a word, a new page appeared with a very simple definition of the word easy enough for a child to understand. The website is very colorful and would be very appealing to a child. The website is sponsored by The Nemours Foundation (1995-2009).

I could see myself using this website in my community. It is important as a medical person to be able to communicate to all ages.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1700443&blobtype=pdf

This paper is the results of a survey which was used to evaulate the differences between doctors and patients on the interpretation of commonly used medical terms. This article was written by Charles Murray Boyle and was published in the British Medical Journal in 1970. Boyle was a final year medical student at the University of Glasgow when he did the survey. The results were taken from 234 of a possible 257 questionaries. The sites was access through google scholar. It contains references, but does not contain links or contacts.

I really like this article, but because it was written in 1970 it is very outdated.

http://www.thebody.com/content/art13571.html

The content of this document is about living with HIV and the importance of understanding the medical jargon so that you can understand the disease. The disign of this site is very easy to follow and even has a chart with commonly used medical terms. The author of the article is Cathy Elliot-Lopez of Women Alive of Los Angeles. The article is part of TheBody.com. The article is not referenced, but was found through google scholar. The audience for this article is gay men. There is no contact information or websites designated.

Under the subheading, "The Basics" there is a short history of medical terminology.