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MENDELEEV EPONYMS IN THE EPOCH OF EDUCATIONAL ETHNOCENTRISM

open access: yesSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS, 2023
Eponymous terms play an important role in STEM education. This research focuses on the current state of Mendeleev eponyms in the context of education and ethnocentrism, addressing their usage in various languages, their educational value, cases of ...
U. Slabin
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Gender Representation in Molluscan Eponyms: Disparities and Legacy

open access: yesAmerican Malacological Bulletin, 2022
: Scientific names that refer to people are called eponyms and are chosen by species authors as honorific, meaningful, or symbolic. Herein, female and male personal eponyms were analyzed from a dataset of 4,915 molluscan species within eight regions ...
Jann E. Vendetti
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Vestimentary eponyms in contemporary Spanish language

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
In a consequence of the perpetual changes in the world of fashion, which can be explained by the introduction of new tendencies, materials and designers, the vocabulary that describes clothing enlarges by the internal means of the language and with the ...
Y. V. Slivchikova
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NOMENs land: The place of eponyms in the anatomy classroom

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, 2021
The law of Non‐Original Malappropriate Eponymous Nomenclature (NOMEN) states that no phenomenon is named after its discoverer. However, eponymous terms are rife in the anatomical and medical literature.
M. McNulty   +2 more
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Eponymous of Diseases Based on Mythology, Literature, and Art [PDF]

open access: yesمجله 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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Les éponymes démythonymiques dans le lexique du polonais et du français [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The text presents the results of a research on the demythonymic eponyms in Polish and French language, i.e. lexical units, which derive from proper names appearing in the fi ctional space of classical myths (mythonyms).
Gałkowski, Artur
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A case for using eponyms in anatomy to teach bioethics

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, 2021
In a recent viewpoint commentary, McNulty et al. (2021) make the compelling case for removing eponymous terms from the anatomy classroom. Their argument is two-fold: (1) the terms themselves are not descriptive of the anatomy and therefore increase the ...
J. M. Organ, Jason C. Mussell
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AN OVERVIEW OF EPONYMS IN THE LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGICAL SYSTEM [PDF]

open access: yesЕзиков свят
This 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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The Functional Value of Proper Nouns in Medical Texts

open access: yesArmenian 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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How to Classify, Teach, and Learn Ophthalmic Eponyms

open access: yesCureus, 2021
Introduction There are limited educational studies on effective ways to teach and learn medical eponyms. While there is no consensus on how to best address this issue, developing novel strategies to teach medical eponyms has become critical in many ...
S. Yale, H. Tekiner, E. Yale
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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