Laboratory 2023: main events of the year

Today we turn off the last page of the calendar, and with it we say goodbye to the old year 2023 (which brought us the war between Hamas and Israel, as well as a hundred thousand good news, such as the publication Pan-Spanish Dictionary of Medical Terms) and welcome the new year 2024. It’s a good time to look back and take stock of what the year that is now ending in this year of ours has brought about. Language lab.

Here’s a possible selection of twenty of the most notable posts I’ve published this year in various sections of the blog.:

To bread, bread: “Food and Nutrition” (September 26)

Historical and literary quotations: “On his dead chest(October 19)

Medical and linguistic curiosities: “Aptonyms (and II)” (November 4)

Where does it come from?: “Nystatin“(October 6)

From person to name: “Petri dish(24 August)

Reasonable doubts: “Cannabis(April 17)

Fairy Tale Circus of Scientific Names: “New Gene Names Thanks to Excel” (January 18)

The power of the tongue: “Mental retardation(the 6th of May)

Sanctified mistakes (or almost): “Keep this medicine…(June 3)

Odd couples: “Health and greetings” (November 18)

Guest signature: “Body feeling“(July 15) and “What is a woman?(March 17)

Humor and language: “Mummy No: mummified person” (April 2)

Patient jargon: “Fatigue” (November 2)

Jungle of medical abbreviations: “TCE, TCAE, TMSCAE(14th of April)

Good medical literature: “Awakenings (1973)(4th of July)

Doctors REALLY know how to write: “Mariano Azuela (1873–1952)” (1st of January)

How difficult English is!: “Aseptic meningitis(26 April)

Do you know that…?: “Doctors Copernicus and Galileo(February 19)

New words: “Anekado” (November 24)

Forgotten words: “Safitas” (February 16)

From Language lab I wish a prosperous 2024 to all followers of the page.

For those who are nostalgic, here is a selection corresponding to the previous three years: “Laboratory 2022: main events of the year“, “Laboratory 2021: main events of the year” And “Laboratory 2020: main events of the year“