Teaching neuroanatomical terminology in english as part of the language of medicine

Autor(i)

  • Vanya Goranova
  • Violeta Tacheva

Ključne riječi:

neuroanatomical terminology, etymology, Synonyms, antonyms, Paronyms, eponyms, Mythonyms, toponyms, acronyms, Backronyms

Sažetak

neuroanatomy is the study of the structural organization of the nervous system. its terminol-ogy is closely related to the origin and development of medical terminology. Understanding linguistic phenomena such as etymology, synonyms, antonyms, paronyms, acronyms etc. helps the students in achieving a higher medical competence. The specific terms could be distributed into several categories related to: 1. geometric objects (pyramid, uncus, fornix); 2. colours (red nucleus, white matter, gray matter); 3. skull structures (lacrimal nerve – lacrimal bone, mandibular nerve – mandible); 4. author name (Schwann cells, Broca area, Parkinson disease). Some terms in the english terminology preserve their original latin form (substantia nigra, corpus callosum) but others are modified (red nucleus, latin - nucleus ruber). This model of investigation may be applied to other medical disciplines.

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2022-08-31