title: [An essay on phonetic and semantic neologisms in scientific language].
abstract: Science has the commitment to formulate pertaining neologisms coherently with the new acquisitions derived from the basic and applied research. The elaboration of scientific neologisms has to be phonetically done on a semantic basis dictated by the ontological substance or formal phenomenology of the object discovered. The article explains the reasons for which it is advisable to avoid a linguistic formulation based on merely phonetic abstractions.
authors.affiliation: Già Professore di Medicina Interna, Università "Sapienza" di Roma, Italia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cugini
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D012586:Science; D012660:Semantics
keywords: linguistics; science; semantics; semeiology; semiology