Erschienen in:
01.03.2007 | Letter to the editor
Maximally accurate nomenclature
verfasst von:
Tom Paluch
Erschienen in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Ausgabe 3/2007
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Excerpt
We in America were blessed (and cursed) by our former oppressors, now our closest allies, the British, with a most wonderful and exasperating language known as English. Careful attention to the definitions of words will result in (dare I say, surgical?) precision in our communication and may prevent calls for the expunging of a most precise and precisely accurate phrase as “minimal access surgery.” No less esteemed surgeon (and English speaker) than Sir Alfred Cuschieri is quite fond of the term, and with just cause. …