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Re: What is Standards Conformance? (Was: Is it possible to invoke

Jan Vorbrüggen

2008-02-10, 8:23 am

> Different professions have different specialized terminology that,
> while based on natural language, is not identical in meaning to
> the natural language origin. Doctors speak a variety of Latin (at
> least for body parts, illnesses, and such).

Actually, anatomy is almost exclusively latin-derived in its vocabulary,
while illnesses (if they aren't named for a person) a mostly gr

. A
case in point is the spleen: you have an arteria lienalis, but suffer
from splenomegalia.

Jan

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