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Medical discourse occurs in natural languages like English or Italian and formal languages such as mathematics. Natural languages develop organically and are full of semantic ambiguities, unlike formal languages which are constructed with strict syntactic and semantic rules. | Medical discourse occurs in natural languages like English or Italian and formal languages such as mathematics. Natural languages develop organically and are full of semantic ambiguities, unlike formal languages which are constructed with strict syntactic and semantic rules. | ||
To prevent the discussion from becoming overly theoretical, an illustrative clinical case will be examined using different logical frameworks | To prevent the discussion from becoming overly theoretical, an illustrative clinical case will be examined using different logical frameworks. | ||
===Clinical case and logic of medical language=== | ===Clinical case and logic of medical language=== | ||
The patient, Mary Poppins (a pseudonym), has been under multidisciplinary medical care for over a decade, treated by dentists, general practitioners, neurologists, and dermatologists. Her medical journey is detailed as follows: | The patient, Mary Poppins (a pseudonym), has been under multidisciplinary medical care for over a decade, treated by dentists, general practitioners, neurologists, and dermatologists. Her medical journey is detailed as follows: |
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