title: [A study on English loan words in French plastic surgery].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The French language is less and less used as an international scientific language and many French researchers publish their work in English. Nowadays, Annales de Chirurgie Plastique Esthétique is the only international plastic surgical journal published completely in French. The use of English loan words in French plastic surgery has never been studied.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to describe the frequency and types of English loan words in French plastic surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  A corpus consisting of all the articles in a number of Annales de Chirurgie Plastique Esthethique, chosen by default, was created. The frequency of English loan words was calculated and the types of words were analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The corpus contains 367 (0.8%) English loan words. Most of them are non-integrated loan words and calques. The majority of the plastic surgical loan words describe surgical techniques.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The French plastic surgical language seems to be influenced by English. The usage of loan words does not always follow the recommendations and the usage is sometimes ambiguous.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie de plastique, département clinique I, université de Bergen, CHU de Haukeland, 65, rue Jonas-Lie, NO-5021 Bergen, Norvège; Département de chirurgie plastique, université de Lund, Lund, Suède. Electronic address: emma.hansson@k1.uib.no.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hansson
authors.affiliation: Département de langues et littératures, université de Göteborg, Box 100, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Suède.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tegelberg
mesh_terms: D007802:Language; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014177:Translations
keywords: Chirurgie plastique; Langage; Language; Lifting; Plastic surgery