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Hypothesis, analysis and synthesis, it's all Greek to me

Published:2019-02-20 Issue: Volume:8 Page:
ISSN:2050-084X
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Author:

Iliopoulos Ioannis¹,Ananiadou Sophia²,Danchin Antoine³⁴^ORCID,Ioannidis John PA⁵,Katsikis Peter D⁶^ORCID,Ouzounis Christos A⁷^ORCID,Promponas Vasilis J⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Division of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

2. School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

3. Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

4. School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, SAR Hong Kong, China

5. Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, University of Stanford, Stanford, United States

6. Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

7. Biological Computation & Process Lab, Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessalonica, Greece

8. Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Abstract

The linguistic foundations of science and technology include many terms that have been borrowed from ancient languages. In the case of terms with origins in the Greek language, the modern meaning can often differ significantly from the original one. Here we use the PubMed database to demonstrate the prevalence of words of Greek origin in the language of modern science, and call for scientists to exercise care when coining new terms.

Publisher

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd

Subject

General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience

Link

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/43514/elife-43514-v1.pdf

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