engleski

Kratice u engleskoj medicinskoj terminologiji

The contribution deals with our previous study on abbreviations in English medical terminology, which later served as a starting point for the theoretical approach in planning the macro- and microstructure of the future dictionary of abbreviations. This study presents the results of classifications and analyses of alphabetisms, acronyms and hybrid forms on a limited corpus of the English medical terms (approximately 200 terms). Alphabetisms, acronyms and hybrids are classified according to two criteria: narrower and broader sense, and their differences in orthographic formation are described by the set of specific descriptors. The suggested description, classification and analysis were used in examining primarily the corpus of English medical terms, as well as, for experimental reasons, the examination of a very limited corpus of abbreviations in Croatian medical terminology.

medicine; abbreviations; English; descriptors; word formation; analysis

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