The aim is to study the professional communication of pediatric cardiologists. The work reveals the economy of speech means, the euphemization of psychologically difficult meanings, manifested in the use of semantic derivation mechanisms. Jargonized units nominating anatomical features or the state of health of patients undergo mainly formal changes that affect the stylistic attribution of vocabulary. The techniques of language play, metaphorization and the desire for a figurative reinterpretation of medical terminology are recorded.
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