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LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS
Table 1 - The use of lexical units in different communicative situations
Doctor - Patient | Doctor - Doctor |
- Common vocabulary (lay words) What’s brought you here? Is anything that makes your pain better? - Absence of terminology Present at birth (instead of congenital) - Absence of abbreviations yellowish skin (instead of jaundice) | - Medical terminology Right ventricular hypertrophy - Latin terms Ostium secundum - Abbreviations and contractions EGD req to def make dx |