Vol. 19 No. 1 (1993): XIX - 1993, Fascicolo 1
Articoli

Significato anatomico e significato patologico nella lingua medica latina: un contributo di semantica testuale

Published 2015-09-14

Keywords

  • Latin language,
  • Latin medicine,
  • body’s parts

Abstract

Latin medical language often uses the same word for both a part of the body and its typical disease. Yet this only happens with body parts affected by a definite pathology: the clinical meaning does not become independent, but is closely related to the context.