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Educación Médica Superior
Print version ISSN 0864-2141
Abstract
TEXIDOR PELLON, Raiza and REYES MIRANDA, Daniel. Some reflections on the most frequent mistakes found in medical texts translated from English. Educ Med Super [online]. 2009, vol.23, n.4, pp. 220-225. ISSN 0864-2141.
Some of the most frequent mistakes found in medical texts translated from English are analyzed, and reflected on, from different angles: the ing ending, the passive voice, the false cognates, idioms, decimal separators, the articles, the capital letters, polysemy, barbarisms, prepositions and general mistakes. The analysis is based on specific examples.
Keywords : Translation; mistakes; medical texts; English.