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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