title: What's in a name? Comments on the dermatological dictionary by Ledier, Rosenblum, and Carter.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Any scientific discipline needs a sharply defined set of words for exact and reproducible communication. Surprisingly this has never been a strong point in dermatological science, especially as regards the living gross pathology of skin disease.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article briefly reviews the four editions of a dermatological dictionary of words and phrases and gives some thoughts on their usefulness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  My conclusions are twofold: we need a new dictionary; at the very least, we need a reprinting of the fourth edition of "A Dictionary of Dermatologic Terms" by Carter.
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. robertj@istar.ca
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology; D004014:Dictionaries as Topic; D009626:Terminology as Topic