The "false friendship" of some medical terms in English-Slovak and Slovak-English translation.
When translating medical texts from English into Slovak or vice versa some terms can cause problems because they proved to be "false friends" functioning in both languages. Most of these expressions are international words coming from classical languages and during the course of time they became different from the point of view of their meaning (Tab. 2, Ref. 3).
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Department of Foreign Languages, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Martin, Slovakia. polackova@jfmed.uniba.sk
D018154:Slovakia; D014175:Translating