• @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms… for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.

    • Apathy Tree
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      131 year ago

      I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.

      And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.

      Ridiculous.

      I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Strange that ‘classics’ are taught mostly in the poshest schools. It’s rare for elites to want to preserve any power they have and make it inaccessible to oiks. /s

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        Couple common ones… there are hundreds of these.

        Acronym - Full Latin - English

        PRN - pro re nata - as needed

        NPO - nil per os - nothing my mouth

        AC - ante cibum - before eating

        OD - oculus dexter - right eye

        OS - oculus sinister - left eye

        Q8H - quaque octava hora - every 8 hours

    • BarqsHasBite
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      Hey I can finally ask, how much of medical terminology is Greek?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Not really any that I’m aware of, but I’m a tech, so my insight is only surface level. Grain of salt.

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        Latin is prelevant but many anatomy terms and conditions are Greek because a lot of the literature first describing conditions and early anatomy was Greek. Heme for blood, dermis for skin, cholecyst(bile bladder) for gallbladder, cyst for bladder ect. Anatomy itself is a word that comes from Greek.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there’s no way we’d ever agree on which alive language to use.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        21 year ago

        Um English? It’s the international language and language of research, though some may not like hearing that.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The whole point of using a “dead” language is that languages change over time and scientists once had the foresight to attempt making their works more universal over both multiple languages and over time.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          English is only the lingua franca for now, but that, as well as the English language, will inevitably change.

          • BarqsHasBite
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            11 year ago

            English might change drastically so much that we change words entirely (so old abbreviations don’t match new words), so let’s just go with the guaranteed dead language where abbreviations already don’t line up. Yeah I can’t agree with that logic.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I unironically kinda wish that would take off. The concept of a super simple bridge language is great.