Improved search

From Cornelius Rosse:

Finally I am getting access to the FMA during my writing. When I come across features that would facilitate its use, I will send you a message that you can park in a folder of ‘To-dos’ when we get anyone to pick up the job. You don’t have to respond to these comments.

I’ve been trying to retrieve ‘areolar tissue’ - common enough of a question. I had a heck of a time. Unless I enter precisely ‘areolar connective tissue’ I don’t get any hits. Until I put in the search box precisely this term after trying many of its versions, I don’t get anything. ‘Areolar tissue’ would be the most likely term an anatomist would enter, and I’d expect the system to give me the options that I could chose from. Actually the FMA has about 50 different kinds of areolar tissue listed as children of ‘Areolar connective tissue’.

This is partly an anatomical issue and shows how much the FMA needs to be evaluated and edited by anatomists [particularly by me] but it would help if the search engine could zero in the term ‘areolar’ and give me the options instead of the user having to guess the specific term the FMA currently uses.

As far as Onard is concerned at this stage, the synonym of ‘Areolar connective tissue’ should be ‘areolar tissue’ not ‘loose areolar connective tissue’. Areolar already means that it is loose and it is already shown that it is a subtype of ‘Loose connective tissue’. It seems to me that was entered by August. As far as I know, there is no areolar tissue of any other kind beside a connective tissue variety. So repeating connective tissue in all the 50 varieties is redundant.