Evolution of scientific knowledge in medicine: the lexical and semantic change

Scientific knowledge in medicine is constantly growing, due to the identification of new diseases, the development of new methods and technologies, the appearance of new treatments and, especially, due to a more detailed description of different phenomena that occur. One of the clues to detect this knowledge is the analysis of the doctors’ and experts’ oral and written productions, within which terminology is a key factor. The analysis of medical texts lexicon and, in particular, of the terminological variation detected over time is decisive to represent this (hidden) evolution of knowledge, always paying special attention to the presence or absence of units, the changes that occur between paradigms or the changes that are detected in terms of content.

 

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Mercè Lorente Casafont
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Rosa Estopà Bagot
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TERMMED. Evolution of scientific knowledge in medicine: the lexical and semantic change, ref. FF12017-88100-P, funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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