Šošovica a šošovka v latinskej a slovenskej anatomickej nomenklatúre
Lentil and Lens in Latin and Slovak Anatomical Nomenclature

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with terms in which anatomical structures are likened to a lentil. The first anatomist who compared lens to a lentil, was Rufus from Ephesus. Until modern times, the lens did not have its own name, its shape was only likened to a lentil. The first author who used the noun lens together with the adjective crystallina to describe it was Govert Bidloo. In the first Slovak medical publications of the 20th century, the Czech equivalent čočka was used for the Latin term lens, since the first Slovak anatomical nomenclature by Ledényi the equivalent šošovka (Eng. lens) has been used. In Latin anatomical nomenclature, the adjectives lentiformis and lenticularis derived from the Latin lens never express a relation to the lens. Their Slovak equivalents should have the form šošovicovitý, similar to a lentil, for the adjective lentiformis and šošovicový, referring to a nucleus lentiformis or having the shape of a lentil, for the adjective lenticularis.

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