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Proctologist

by Alkanadi, June 15, 2016

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Language: English

Alkanadi (User's profile) June 15, 2016, 10:28:11 AM

Since there is no word in Esperanto for Proctologist, I would like to suggest the word maldentisto. This is partly meant as a joke.

Saluton. Mi estas maldentisto.

NJ Esperantist (User's profile) June 15, 2016, 11:38:19 AM

I'll be interested to see what we come up with for this. I did find a Wikipedia entry for colorectal cancer. kojlorektuma kancero, so perhaps kojlorektumo could give us the root. Kojlorektumisto = Proctologist (?) So then what would we call proctology? kojlorektuma scienco?

noelekim (User's profile) June 16, 2016, 3:24:54 AM

Alkanadi:Since there is no word in Esperanto for Proctologist, I would like to suggest the word maldentisto. This is partly meant as a joke.
For medical terms, a medical dictionary can be just what the doctor ordered.

The Medicina Vortaro of Universala Medicina Esperanto-Asocio (UMEA), under PROKT/O, has '-ologio' for the science and practice, so it follows that that the practioner is 'proktologo'.

For a quick reference to Esperanto dictionaries online, this is handy: eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperantaj_vortaroj_en_la_reto

NJ Esperantist (User's profile) June 16, 2016, 1:42:45 PM

noelekim:
Alkanadi:Since there is no word in Esperanto for Proctologist, I would like to suggest the word maldentisto. This is partly meant as a joke.
For medical terms, a medical dictionary can be just what the doctor ordered.

The Medicina Vortaro of Universala Medicina Esperanto-Asocio (UMEA), under PROKT/O, has '-ologio' for the science and practice, so it follows that that the practioner is 'proktologo'.

For a quick reference to Esperanto dictionaries online, this is handy: eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperantaj_vortaroj_en_la_reto
Thank you for finding that!

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