I need help! I have a paper due on Monday for the uses of medical terminology. Can anyone help me out here.?

Question

I been looking on the web for the last 2 hours and I cant find anything on this. I been lookin through my books and im almost done with my paper, I just need 1 more reason for why medical terminology is used.

Answer 1

Medical terminology is useful because medicine itself needs to be as precise as possible therefore the words used to communicate about medicine need to be as precise as possible.



Example: You wouldn't want your doctor operating on your thingamajig in your part there that's somewhere below your head, but above your bumps in your legs, would you?

Answer 2

Medical terminology is used for the patient's protection. It says exactly what the doctor is doing, exactly what the problem is, and exactly what has to be done to fix it. The prescriptions are in medical script so there is no confusion about what is being ordered. The great thing about medical terminology is that it is the same anywhere in the western world.

You say you need just one more reason, but I have no idea what reasons you have already given, so if anything in the above paragraph resonates, use it. If not, sorry...

Answer 3

I don't know what reasons you have already given in your paper, but the most important reason (in my opinion) is to obviate ambiguity and misinterpretation. In other words, medical terminology provides a kind of "standard language" in which any given term is understood to mean the same thing to everyone in the medical profession (and others, too).



By way of contrast, in Biology, the word gopher can mean at least three different animals: (1) a small burrowing mammal, (2) a snake, i.e. gopher snake, or (3) a species of turtle

Answer 4

Additionally, having a language (medical terminology) for your profession sets itself apart from "just another career." It adds to the justification of the medical field being a Professional Field. One might argue that those in the medical field can freely discuss problems of patients without the general population understanding.

Answer 5

It not is used to diagnose but the term

explains it to the exact diagnosis.

See example below.

For example, the term clinodactyly means that a child has a deformity, usually congenital, in which one or more of their fingers are curved inwards. Why say clindodactyly instead of just saying the child's finger is curved? The main reason is that if your just described the finger as being curved, you wouldn't know which way it was curved or why it was curved. The single word clinodactyly has all of that extra information implied in its definition.

Answer 6

communication between medical personal......? Just a guess