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First of all this is a very important subject, so thanks a lot for your effort and time.I totally believe that students, translators and researchers are in need for this.Five years ago, a friend of mine asked me to help him translate some medical articles and papers as a part of his study, and I struggled a lot to find the equivalent Arbic words for the medical terms in those papers.Thus, I was delighted when I saw your contribution.However, I would like to clarify some points for novice language learners and translators.
We , as linguists, regards the language used by physicians and pharmacists as an indispensable part of a subfield of linguistics that we call "ESP" .ESP stands for English for special/specific purposes.Therefore, it is difficult for students, teachers and researchers to find these medical terms/terminlogies in an ordinary English dictionary no matter how big it is. Keep in your mind the fact that these terms are technical and some of them are borrowed from other languages.
Vocabularyies used in any scientific field such as law, commerce, medicine, etc. are called terms or terminologie not words. we can define the word term as: a word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or
subject
and the word terminologies as :
the technical or special terms used in a business, art,
.science, or special subject
physicians as well as orther scientific groups sometimes use a langugae that can not be understood by ordinary and laypeople as this language full of abbreviations, symboles and strange vocabulary.That is why we call the scientific language of a specific field, Jargon. A Jargon can be defined as: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group.Thus, do not feel frustrated or doubt your linguistic proficiency if you could not understand prescriptions written by physicians.
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16 Mar 2006, 02:35 AM
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