title: Dermatology and the Brazilian Portuguese language orthographic reform.
abstract: The Brazilian Portuguese language orthographic reform has promoted changes in writing in less than 2% of its lexis. However, these changes have affected medical practice. The authors present in this article the main changes in the orthographic rules and gather a group of words that have had their spelling altered by this new language reform emphasizing the dermatological terms.
authors: Dermatology and Radiotherapy Departement from the Medical School of Botucatu, Sao Paulo State University, SP, Brazil. heliomiot@fmb.unesp.br
authors: Hélio Amante
authors: HA
authors: Miot
authors: Paulo Müller
authors: PM
authors: Ramos
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003880:Dermatology; D007802:Language; D009626:Terminology as Topic