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Revista Cubana de Cirugía

Print version ISSN 0034-7493On-line version ISSN 1561-2945

Abstract

FUENTES VALDES, Edelberto. Medical language in surgery. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2015, vol.54, n.2, pp.177-186. ISSN 0034-7493.

Spanish language in medicine is full of numerous vices, which reduces credibility to the scientific message, i.e., use of words without knowing its meanings and unnecessary foreign words, mainly anglicisms. Adequate use of language, specially the scientific one, is not only a right but an obligation of the researcher, because errors could cause inaccuracies of the meaning of what we intend to say or convey, and lack of understanding between professional people or what is worst, totally mistaken interpretation. It has been stated that the future of languages - except English language- greatly depends on the capacity to designate the new scientific and technical concepts. The objective of this paper was to review some common lexical inaccuracies in general surgery and also in the rest of surgical specialties and to encourage medical sciences professionals to properly use one of the richest languages, that is, the Spanish language.

Keywords : medical language; foreignness; anglicism.

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