MEDICAL TERMS USED DENOTATIVELY IN THE ROMANIAN WRITTEN PRESS
MEDICAL TERMS USED DENOTATIVELY IN THE ROMANIAN WRITTEN PRESS

Summary/Abstract: This article represents a study on medical terms of English origin that went beyond the strictly specialized area and entered the language of the Romanian press, preserving their specialized, denotative meaning. The terms were selected from the electronic editions of some successful Romanian newspapers, such as “Adevărul”, “Evenimentul Zilei” and “Jurnalul Naţional” over a period of one year, from October 2009 until September 2010. The selected terms were classified into the following categories: a) terms of English origin, accompanied or not by a short definition or a Romanian synonym, b) ultra specialized terms, accompanied by some explanations formulated in terms which are more accessible to the non-specialized speaker, c) specialized terms, accompanied by their folk variant.

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