Table 1.

Latin terms and terminological collocations in Journal of Medical Case Reports

Thematic groups	Anatomical descriptions	Physiological conditions	Methods of studies and experiments	Indications to treatment	Pathological conditions	Academic language
Structure
One-word terms	N/Aa	32	–	4	N/A*	21
Two-word phrases	64	97	464	100	33	52
Three-word phrases	24	–	–	–	27	1
Compound English-Latin word phrases	151	6	–	–	5	–
Abbreviations	–	–	–	35	–	184

^a We did not conduct quantitative analysis of one-word Latin terms denoting anatomical descriptions and pathological conditions because of their predominance in the medical discourse and because of their high level of assimilation into the English language. Instead, we deliberately focused on the multiple-word terms that clearly preserve the Latin lexicogrammatical features and therefore are the demonstrative examples of using the classical language in MCRs nowadays

N/A Not available, MCRs Medical case reports