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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2014 Eponyms are a long-standing tradition in medicine. Eponyms usually involve honoring a prominent physician scientist who played a major role in the identification of the disease. Under the right circumstances, a disease becomes well known through the name
Robert P. Ferguson, Deborah Thomas
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European Journal of Pediatrics, 2011 Gilbert syndrome is a common autosomal dominant hereditary condition with incomplete penetrance and characterized by intermittent unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the absence of hepatocellular disease or hemolysis. In patients with Gilbert syndrome, uridine diphosphate-glucuronyl transferase activity is reduced to 30% of the normal, resulting in ...
Fretzayas, A. +3 more
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Eponyms in science terms (Epistemological aspect) [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 The paper is devoted to eponyms used in scientific discourse. The concept of the eponym is borrowed from linguistic research. The term is understood from epistemological standpoint.
Koshlakov Dmitriy +3 more
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Eponymous of Diseases Based on Mythology, Literature, and Art [PDF]
مجله علوم پزشکی صدرا, 2023 Language includes various tools that are very important in communication and the transfer of experiences. Abbreviations, similes, metaphors, ironies, puns, repetitions, and synonyms play an essential role in this regard.
Yeganeh Farnamian, Atekeh Rasmi
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AN OVERVIEW OF EPONYMS IN THE LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGICAL SYSTEM [PDF]
Езиков святThis research aims to present a comprehensive classification of eponyms within Latin medical terminology, based on the type of proper name from which they are derived (referred to as “thematic classification”) and the various patterns of eponym ...
Gergana PETKOVA, Vanya IVANOVA
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Eponyms in Latin, English and Bulgarian Medical Terminology
Limbaj si Context, 2021 Eponyms have been an inseparable part of medicine ever since science came into existence. The objective of the present paper is to establish the main principles of formation of eponyms in Latin, English and Bulgarian medical terminology.
Zlatina Zheleva +2 more
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The Functional Value of Proper Nouns in Medical Texts
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014 Medical terminology is the professional language of those who are directly or indirectly engaged in the art of healing. Medical texts contain a lot of Greek and Latin borrowings, metaphoric usages of some terms and also term-eponyms.
Marianna Ohanyan
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Auf der Suche nach der Motivation von Eponymen – Am Beispiel der kulinarischen Fachsprache im Polnischen [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławEponyms are used every day all over the world, but mostly unconsciously. They are underestimated not only by language users, but also by linguists, as they receive little attention in scientific texts.
Justyna Ślęzak
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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2020 Introduction: Medical eponyms are names given to different body structures after the people who discovered them. They have been used for centuries and have deep cultural roots, mainly in the medical sciences field, but they do not provide relevant ...
Jorge Eduardo Duque-Parra +2 more
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Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 A discussion on social media led to the formation of a multidisciplinary group working on this project to highlight women’s contributions to science.
Sabine von Mering +7 more
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