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What's in a name? Comments on the dermatological dictionary by Ledier, Rosenblum, and Carter
1University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. robertj@istar.ca
Background:
Any scientific discipline needs a sharply defined set of words for exact and reproducible communication. Surprisingly this has never been a strong point in dermatological science, especially as regards the living gross pathology of skin disease.
Objective:
This article briefly reviews the four editions of a dermatological dictionary of words and phrases and gives some thoughts on their usefulness.
Conclusion:
My conclusions are twofold: we need a new dictionary; at the very least, we need a reprinting of the fourth edition of "A Dictionary of Dermatologic Terms" by Carter.
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