INTERNATIONAL ANATOMICAL TERMINOLOGY: A CORRECTION.

Anatomical Terminology

Unification of Sinonasal Anatomical Terminology.

The advent of endoscopy and computed tomography at the beginning of the 1980s brought to rhinology a revival of anatomy and physiology study. In 1994, the International Conference of Sinus Disease was conceived because the official “Terminologia Anatomica”1 had little information on the detailed sinonasal anatomy. In addition, there was a lack of uniformity of terminology and definitions. After...

The Bulgarian anatomical terminology of today

By Bulgarian anatomical terms we mean the names established by scientific tradition, duplicating the Latin anatomical terms and coined with the means of the Bulgarian language or loan-words which are grammatically integrated (assimilated) into the Bulgarian anatomical text and are written in the Cyrillic alphabet. In their integrity and systemic relationships, the Bulgarian anatomical terms mak...

Considerations in students’ learning of anatomical terminology

Each subject discipline has its own language. Many anatomical terms are based on Latin or Greek, so students unfamiliar with either and learning anatomy for the first time often struggle with the terminology. A study was therefore conducted to investigate whether knowing the meaning of an anatomical term helped students recognise the anatomical structure, and whether identifying an associated E...

Identification of anatomical terminology in medical text

We report on an experiment to use the natural language processing tools being developed in the SPECIALIST system to accurately identify terminology associated with the coronary arteries as expressed in coronary catheterization reports. The ultimate goal is to map from any anatomically-oriented medical text to online images, using the UMLS as an intermediate knowledge source. We describe some of...