Linguistic malady in medical literature: the horrible homonyms
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https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20261730Keywords:
Homonym, Homophone, Homograph, Medical literature, DisambiguationAbstract
As a medical student for 10 years, and then as a teacher for 25 years-the author has found and felt the semantic confusions (i.e. ambiguity about words and their meanings) in medical students/literature widespread. It is a commentary-correlating confusing realities from various standard sources of scientific medical literature. Suggesting some approaches for improvement.
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