Terminologia Anatomica after 17 years: Inconsistencies, mistakes and new proposals

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/15:43909849

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2015.04.006" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2015.04.006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2015.04.006" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.aanat.2015.04.006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Terminologia Anatomica after 17 years: Inconsistencies, mistakes and new proposals

Original language description

The article deals with our experience of Terminologia Anatomica (TA) in fields of education (of systemic and topographic anatomy) and clinical medicine (teaching of clinical anatomy and courses for young physicians in endoscopy). The anatomical nomenclature in Latin has been official for 120 years and its latest version for 17 years. Its main weak points should be discussed in public (or at least the discussion should be provoked), which is the reason for publishing the following findings and ensuing proposals. They are classified with seven groups: mistakes in TA, discrepancies in TA, multiplication of terms, synonyms in TA, identical terms for different structures, too long terms and missing terms in TA. The last group comprises missing terms in systemic anatomy, clinical anatomy, a paucity of terms in variant anatomy, in locomotion system and in topographic anatomy. Several attempts to draw attention to these have been made by the publication of inaccuracies in Nomina Anatomica and

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

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Annals of Anatomy

ISSN

0940-9602

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

201

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

8-16

UT code for WoS article

000360867900002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84943772129