Neologisms

The but changes constantly. Neologism are new words, new meanings of old words, or new phrases. Neologisms are created according to the productive structural patterns or borrowed from another language and felt by the speakers something new.

Neologisms appear as a result of appearing of new notions in different spheres of life, medicine included.

Many scientists consider neologisms as new words existing in the language for about 20 years. With time they may enter dictionaries and become part of the language system. Some neologisms are short-lived.

Many new words and word-phrases, referring to science and technique, are formed in English as well as in other languages from the Latin and Greek root-morphemes, and they are international words. Eg.: anti-biotic, isotope, cyclotron, etc.

There are examples of recent neologisms:

Medicine:genetic mother

diabulimia - loss of weight by a diabetic skipping insulin doses

osteophytes

smoke-free, risk-free

sickic - a man on a sick leave

life - transformer

pseudogout

calorie - conscious

medicine - speak

medicine - clever

disproducts

health-and-safety-conscious IB (incapacity benefit) recipients tiger - form prostate

pussy - cat cancer

g m - free zone (genetically modified crops) client - friendly - very attentive to a client health drive

to be green = eco-friendly = environment - friendly

heart - healthy - conductive to a healthy heart and circulatory system

junk DNA - a region of DNA that usually consists of a repeating DNA sequence,

does not code for protein and has no known function

ground - the gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes

nanoscale - having dimensions measured in nanometers

agita - a feeling of anxiety or agitation

xenogenesis - offspring that does not resemble its parents

fen-phen (fenfluramine + phentermine) - a drug combination

frankenfood - genetically engineered food

brain freeze - a sudden shooting pain in the head caused by ingesting very cold food (an ice cream) or drink

hospitalist - a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients of other physicians in order to minimize the number of hospital visits by other physicians

Other neologisms:vocabularian - one who pays too much attention to words empleomania - a manic compulsion to hold public office homodoxian - a person who has the same opinion as you must - see, must - read weather - speak, euro - speak Euro - speak, doctor - speak environmentally - friendly, family - friendly near - war - a situation close to war

neets - people aged between 16 and 24 who are not in education, employment or training

no-go - it won't do, nothing will come of it

 

celebs = celebrities

street-rats - people who are ordered to do community work (eg. colleat, litter, etc)

chocoholic = chocolate + alcoholic, shopaholic = shopping + alcoholic

МЕР - member of the European Parliament

to prioritize - to put smth in the first place

Euro-sceptics - people not believing in euro policy

hellraiser - a man who makes terrible disorder, mess

to father - to be like father

spendaholies, writaholic, cashaholic - a man who is always in need of money

to buy-in - collective buying things

all-female - only females

under - librarian, under - manager

off-season - dead season

up-wind - против ветра

farmerette - a farmer-woman

nutalat (nut + chocolate)

hornetel - a hotel of flat-type, the room of which are rented to clients for a long time see-through - transparent material clothes woopie (a well-off older person)

yuppie (a young upwardly mobile professional person) - молодой, продвигающийся вверх профессиональный человек why (what have you?) - in short magazine commercials agony aunt

trade-in - старая вещь, сданная в счет оплаты новой (особенно практикуется при покупке автомашины)

As seen above neologisms are formed according to all productive ways of word-formation: affixation, compounding, conversion, shortening, through metaphor and metonymy.