Help obtaining the Unified Medical Dictionary database

Category: Questions & membership Priority: P3 Area: Other (off-topic request) Reports: 2 threads (same sender, duplicate email) Status: Open

Summary

Dr. Mutaz Elhasan, a physician and medical translator working on Arabic medical-terminology (تعريب طبي) projects, sent the same long, very complimentary email to support@qaf.ai twice (two separate threads, ~2 hours apart on 2026-08-16). He praises Qaf as a rare high-quality Arabic tech project, then asks whether the team — given its Arabic-language expertise — can guide him to legally obtain the Unified Medical Dictionary (المعجم الطبي الموحّد) terminology database. He explicitly wants a lawful, licensed path: pointers to the owning body, the right contact channel, a licensed copy, or a trustworthy alternative source. This is off-topic for Qaf; Abdellatif replied on one thread that the team has no direct experience with the dictionary but would pass along anything useful. No product action needed beyond possibly closing both threads.

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Dr. Mutaz Elhasan — mutaz.elhasan@gmail.com (primary thread)

A physician and medical translator praises Qaf at length, introduces his work on standardizing Arabic medical terminology, and asks for help finding a legal, authorized way to obtain the Unified Medical Dictionary database after his own attempts to reach the owning parties failed.

ومن أهم الموارد التي أسعى منذ مدة إلى الاستفادة منها المعجم الطبي الموحّد (Unified Medical Dictionary)، ولا سيما قاعدة بيانات مصطلحاته العربية والإنجليزية، لما لها من قيمة كبيرة في أعمال التعريب الطبي وضبط المصطلحات.

One of the most important resources I have long sought to benefit from is the Unified Medical Dictionary — especially its Arabic/English terminology database — given its great value for Arabic medical translation and terminology standardization.

Abdellatif's reply (2026-08-18): thanked him for the kind words, said the team unfortunately has no direct experience with the Unified Medical Dictionary or its database and has never worked in that area, wished him success, and promised to let him know if any useful contact or information surfaces.

Dr. Mutaz Elhasan — mutaz.elhasan@gmail.com (duplicate thread)

Identical copy of the same request, sent to support@qaf.ai on a separate thread the same day; safe to close as a duplicate.

سأكون ممتنًا جدًا إن استطعتم مساعدتي بأحد الأمور الآتية: إرشادي إلى الجهة التي يمكن أن تمنح إذنًا رسميًا بالحصول على قاعدة البيانات، أو تعريفـي بالطريقة الصحيحة للتواصل مع القائمين عليها، أو مساعدتي في الوصول إلى نسخة مرخّصة منها إن كان ذلك متاحًا، أو توجيهي إلى أي مصدر بديل موثوق يتيح بيانات المعجم بصورة قانونية ومنظمة.

I would be very grateful if you could help me with any of the following: pointing me to the body that can grant official permission to obtain the database, telling me the right way to contact its maintainers, helping me get a licensed copy if available, or directing me to any trustworthy alternative source that offers the dictionary's data in a legal, organized way.

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