title: [Medical and surgical language].
abstract: Medical language contains many faults. One of them is the use of cultured and elegant words without knowing its proper significance. A second error is the recourse to using foreign words or phrases (foreignisms), particularly Anglicisms, both in their original spelling (raw foreignisms) and Hispanicised (adapted word); an overlapping mode of foreignism are so-called "calques" or loan translations. Thirdly, there is the use of words that do not exist in Spanish, palabros. Finally, the words are not correctly pronounced. In this article some examples of these errors are demonstrated and it is directed towards the appropriate use of language.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. jo.asensip@comv.es
authors.forename: Josep
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Asensi-Pérez
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Villalba-Ferrer
authors.forename: José V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Roig-Vila
mesh_terms: D007802:Language; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic