A plea for extension of the official nomenclature of the microscopic structure of human tissues and organs, the terminologia histologica

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/FM.a2019.0110" target="_blank" >10.5603/FM.a2019.0110</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A plea for extension of the official nomenclature of the microscopic structure of human tissues and organs, the terminologia histologica

Original language description

Background: At first sight, the issue of terminology in morphological sciences may seem as &quot;closed and changeless chapter&quot;, as many of the structures within the human body have been known for centuries. However, the exact opposite is true. Terminologia Histologica: International Terms for Human Cytology and Histology published under the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminology in 2008 is a new standard in human cell and tissue terminology. The list of items in the first and still valid official nomenclature of cellular and tissue structures, the Terminologia Histologica (TH), is the best and most extensive of all the histological nomenclatures ever issued. Materials and methods: The aim of this article is a systematic and in-depth analysis of the current internationally accepted nomenclature TH, with focus on important histological structures which are missing in this first edition. Some should be incorporated just for the sake of completeness and consistence, others are purely absent terms for individual structures or some are recently described new tissue structures. Results: We also discuss about a question, how to deal with the issue of eponyms. Eponyms reflect medicine&apos;s rich and colourful history. Although they have not been considered official terms in the anatomical nomenclature since 1955, they are still widely used in clinical practice. Conclusions: We hope that this opinion article will develop a wide scientific discussion before the publication of the second edition, so perhaps the mentioned minor flaws will be corrected, so the new edition of the TH will become truly an internationally accepted communication tool for all histologists, histopathologists and anatomists.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30106 - Anatomy and morphology (plant science to be 1.6)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Folia Morphologica

ISSN

0015-5659

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

79

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

610-620

UT code for WoS article

000595928500022

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090564657