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Glossary entry

français term or phrase:

alzheimérologie

anglais translation:

Research into Alzheimer's Disease/The study of Alzheimer's Disease

Added to glossary by liz askew
Jun 14, 2011 15:27
12 yrs ago
français term

alzheimérologie

français vers anglais Médecine Médecine (général)
Does anyone know if the word "alzheimerology" (like "cancerology") is a common expression in the medical world? I'm somewhat skeptical because the texts in which I've found it used seem to be translations.
Thanks in advance!
Proposed translations (anglais)
4 +2 The study of Alzheimer's Disease
4 +2 Research and medicine dedicated to AD, "Alzheimerology"
5 Alzheimerology (understandable but NOT official)
References
alzheimerologie
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se...
Change log

Jun 16, 2011 14:58: liz askew Created KOG entry

Discussion

Laura Miller (asker) Jun 16, 2011:
Thanks everyone for your input!
Gabriella Bertelmann Jun 14, 2011:
Definitely agree with Michael Barnett
Laura Miller (asker) Jun 14, 2011:
lol. I asked my doctor and the young medical intern tagging along with her (I swear she wasn't a day over 16 - or is it that I'm getting older?) if either of them had ever heard of "alzheimerology", and they both said no. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't some sort of new buzzword with which I wasn't familiar. Thanks everyone for your help!
Michael Barnett Jun 14, 2011:
Subspecialty It's a branch of dementology. ;-)
SJLD Jun 14, 2011:
A LONG-STANDING COMMITMENT TO PROGRESS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN ALZHEIMEROLOGIE - I would just call this "Biomedical Research in Alzheimer's Disease". "Alzheimology" somehow sounds like a trivialisation in English.
liz askew Jun 14, 2011:
The asker's question was: is this a common expression in the medical world. Well, one doctor has already given their opinion on this. Understandable maybe, but not widely used.
Agnes T-H Jun 14, 2011:
@Laura RE your question on my answer Ohhhhh, then it COULD BE that your client deliberately used the term in French (more commonly used) to avoid the huuuuuge amount of emails he would have received from purists if he had written " Alzheimerology".... Anyways; I am going back to what I say in my answer:
It is perfectly understandable by the medical community BUT:
It ALL depends on where it is being written and on the context. A corporate website? I would avoid to use it. A clinical trial? I would make sure it is NOT being used AT ALL, but in an informal press article (medical but more relax) why not?
Laura Miller (asker) Jun 14, 2011:
Thanks guys. My grandfather had the ugly disease, and I never heard or saw the term once while at the doctor's with him, but he was at the treatment end, not the research end, so I wanted to make sure.
liz askew Jun 14, 2011:
Yes, I agree with SJLD. This is why I only posted the references, which were few and far between, and the word itself was in inverted commas.
SJLD Jun 14, 2011:
Laura, it's not a common expression at all. You'd never see a department of alzheimerology (c.f. oncology) for example. Bit of a jargon word used by those working in the discipline.
Laura Miller (asker) Jun 14, 2011:
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I have a doctor's appointment today, so maybe I'll ask my physician what she thinks.
Mike Birch Jun 14, 2011:
Seems like a lazy neologism, hidden inside inverted commas within translated documents. "Alzheimer pathology" is only 4 characters and a space more!

Proposed translations

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2 heures
Selected

The study of Alzheimer's Disease

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dSzr8kw...


Cancerology = the study of cancer


Ology List - List of -ology Sciences and Scientific Disciplines
An ology is a discipline of study, as indicated by having the -ology suffix. This is a list of science ologies. Please let me know if you know of an -ology ...
chemistry.about.com/od/.../a/ologylist.htm - Cached - Similar
Answers.com - The suffix -ology means the study of
Definitions and Word Differences question: The suffix -ology means the study of? yes it does. -ology is from the greek origin.(:
wiki.answers.com › ... › Definitions and Word Differences - Cached - Similar



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or

Research into Alzheimer's Disease

Lab-grown brain cells should aid research into Alzheimer's - BBC
4 Mar 2011 ... This blog post was about recent medical research into Alzheimer's disease, not care for elderly dementia patients. ...
www.bbc.co.uk/.../lab-grown_brain_cells_should_aid_research... - Cached

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A subject close to my heart, as my Aunt has senile dementia.
Note from asker:
This is what I had in my rough draft Liz, basically: "Alzheimer's research", thanks for the help.
Peer comment(s):
agree SJLD : research in(to) AD
1 heure
Thank you!
agree B D Finch : If the "...ology" is a word, it shouldn't be: unless it is in a BT ad by Maureen Lipman!
1 heure
Thank you!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Liz!"
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Alzheimerology (understandable but NOT official)

Yes it exists but it is like in French
"It is this conceptual shift that is the source of the development of modern “ Alzheimerology,” which began in the 1960s"

In an hospital the department taking in charge Alzheimer patients is Neurology. Alzheimmerology is being worded like a specialty but does not belong to the neurology subspecialties (that is to say there is no OFFICIAL certification in Alzheimmerology YET)
See specialties and subspecialties chart of the American board of medical specialties
http://www.abms.org/who_we_help/physicians/specialties.aspx

BUT I would say that it is a term that is 100% understandable (but would pretty much irritate purists)

Depending 100% on which type of "paper" you are translating, you can choose to use it or not....
I.e: I think I would surely not use it on a clinical trial publication, but I would use it in a press article (after agreement of the client).
But that's only my opinion.

My source? My own certification in Clinical Research....

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Ohhhhh, then it COULD BE that your client deliberately used the term in French to avoid the huuuuuge amount of emails he would have received from purists if he has written " Alzheimerology"....
Note from asker:
The English version of the clien'ts website uses "Alzheimerologie", Ex: A LONG-STANDING COMMITMENT TO PROGRESS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN ALZHEIMEROLOGIE. I'm just not sure if using a term that is understandable but not necessarily commonly used is the best choice here.
Obviously, I'm supposed to correct the above sentence, as "alzheimerologie" isn't English at all...
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Research and medicine dedicated to AD, "Alzheimerology"

Standard “Alzheimerology” lore holds that the insolubility of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles was a great impediment to elucidating the ...
sciencestage.com/d/.../breaking-up-amyloid-is-hard-to-do.html

10 Jan 1997 ... "My vision of the brave new world in 'Alzheimerology' is that as a part of health screening 10 years from now, you'll have your blood level ...
archives.focus.hms.harvard.edu/1997/.../Neurology.html

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Harhard edu and Jessie's ref seem to prove it is used.

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And I see somebody quoted me... "research etc."
Note from asker:
Thanks! I saw this article as well, but I just wanted to make sure that it's not just a poor translation, or a word that a few people use, but isn't commonly used.
Peer comment(s):
agree Jessie Nelson : There is a center for the study of Alzheimerology at Lyon, whic may prove helpful. Here is the url : http://www.univ-lyon2.fr/d-u-alzheimerologie-et-pathologies-... it includes a program in Neuropsychology, a field I always
11 minutes
Thank you Jessie. Quite useful.
agree Dr Lofthouse
2 heures
Thank you.
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Reference comments

1 minute
Reference:

alzheimerologie

think you are right, sounds like an invented term - made-up word ref. Alzh.
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Reference:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ku83xyK...

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https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Hl3LjWzy_SoJ:scie...
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