Exploring medical terminology inexpediencies: Tripledemic vs. triple epidemic.
Exp Ther Med
; 26(1): 334, 2023 Jul.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37346400
ABSTRACT
Accurate and consistent medical terminology has a fundamental value in medicine. It enables medical students to understand the meaning of each term, medical physicians to communicate with each other, and it also enables science to adopt a logical language of high-level understanding and scientific regularity. Medical terminology inexpediencies caused by the adoption of etymologically illogical or linguistically false terms lead to misunderstanding and confusion among clinicians. The medical terms epidemic and pandemic are as old as Hippocrates and Sophocles, respectively. The present article evaluates the new medical terms tripledemic and triple epidemic, which were introduced during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Exp Ther Med
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Grecia