title: [Czech terms for rod-shaped bacteria].
abstract: With increasing frequency, the rod-shaped bacteria have been recently referred to in Czech as tyce (the singular is tyc) instead of the diminutive tycinky (the singular is tycinka) as used in classical Czech textbooks and handbooks of medical microbiology. This discordance might result from inadequate translation of the English term rods. Although the English-Czech dictionary gives three equivalents for the analyzed meaning of this word, i.e. tyc, tycka, tycinka, the first option, a mono-syllable as the English rod is, is often selected without further consideration. Nevertheless, such simplification is not justified; to avoid confusion it is preferable to use conventional terminology.
authors.affiliation: Mikrobiologický ustav LF MU a FN u sv. Anny v Brnĕ.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Votava
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014175:Translating