Category Archives: Terminology

AntConc version 4: first impressions

Posted on 28 February 2022 by Emma Goldsmith

A new version of AntConc was released at the end of last year. I spotted the announcement on Twitter and was quick to download and start testing the tool, taking advantage of some downtime over the holidays. Read on for … Continue reading →

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Endometriosis: disease, disorder or condition?

Posted on 28 January 2021 by Emma Goldsmith

Last week a colleague asked the Twittersphere whether endometriosis is a disease, disorder or condition. Always keen to accept a challenge, I went off to investigate. Join me on my journey down the rabbit hole!

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Three terms in clinical trial documentation

Posted on 4 March 2019 by Emma Goldsmith

Three terms unravelled and a shout-out to the Cosnautas clinical trials dictionary. Continue reading →

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Using corpora to query cardiology terminology

Posted on 27 April 2017 by Emma Goldsmith

How a good corpus can help make translation decisions Continue reading →

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Abbreviations: how confident are you?

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

Hyuna Ham asks whether common abbreviations in English source texts can be left untranslated. Continue reading →

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MedDRA: new version 19.0

Posted on 23 March 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

News of the March 2016 update to the MedDRA terminology databases Continue reading →

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An introduction to MedDRA for medical translators

Posted on 15 March 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

Medical translators need to be conversant with MedDRA. Are you? Continue reading →

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New terminology for a new regulation

Posted on 16 December 2015 by Emma Goldsmith

Are you conversant with the new definitions in the EU Clinical Trials regulation? Continue reading →

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Strategies for translating complex texts

Posted on 12 June 2015 by Emma Goldsmith

How I learnt about diabetes and oxidative stress through experts, networking and corpora. Continue reading →

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WHO glossary of assisted reproductive technology

Posted on 11 February 2015 by Emma Goldsmith

A handcrafted English-Spanish alignment of a WHO infertility glossary. Continue reading →

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