Logos in medicine

Abstract

The scientific world suffers from a sort of daily linguistic Babel in which words seem to have lost their capacity to communicate because the many neologisms introduced are rarely validated by the authority of a dictionary of scientific terminology. Scientists have a great responsibility, because they are invested with the role of 'nominator'. They should, therefore, always link to their untiring and worthy ability of recognizing new concepts great care and attention also to the process of naming them, in order to express their qualities with clarity and elegance, avoiding any kind of trite coinage.