Analisi delle denominazioni di malattie in lingua italiana, polacca e inglese in chiave contrastiva svolta sulla base di alcune entità nosologiche tratte dalla Classificazione ICD-10 dell’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità
A contrastive analysis of names of diseases in Italian, Polish and English based on selected clinical entities adopted from the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 provided by the World Health Organization

Summary/Abstract: The article shall cover issues related to the plurality of names of diseases in Italian, Polish and English language. By making reference to their Latin etymology as well as to the multilingual corpus based on the ICD-10 classification provided by the World Health Organization, the authors aim at highlighting a number of translation problems of different categories of diseases by analyzing individual clinical entities from sociolinguistic approach including features such as eponyms, erudite and popular derivatives, Greek, Latin and Latinized forms. In this respect, the differences between various levels of medical communication shall be discussed as well as the frequency of use of some variant forms of diseases in Italian and Polish present within two reference corpora respectively (with a brief remark to English language). Finally, the authors shall point out selected examples of incorrectly rendered forms of diseases between Italian, Polish and English.

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