Some Anatomical and Physiological Aspects of Medical Translation

Lexical equivalence, ubiquitous references and universality of subject minimize misunderstanding and maximize transfer of meaning

Bibliographic Data

ID4344657
AuthorsHenry Fischbach (corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume31
Issue1
Pages16-21
Publication date2002-09-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/002743ar
OpenAlexW2083515008
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Medical translation is the most universal and oldest field of scientific translation because of the homogeneous ubiquity of the human body (the same in Montreal, Mombasa and Manila) and the venerable history of medicine. Its terminology is mostly of Greco-Latin parentage and thus presents fewer lexicographic problems than other fields of scientific translation. A wealth of superb reference tools are readily accessible. The general miscegenation of the sciences and the extensive "lend-lease" among them require the translator to subject the source language to differential diagnosis if his translation therapy is to be successful

Biology · Field (mathematics) · Homogeneous · Library science · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Pure mathematics · Scientific terminology · Subject (documents) · Terminology · Translation (biology) · Artificial Intelligence · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · History · Mathematics · Medical and Biological Sciences · Medical Terminology · Philosophy

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