ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ДЕФИСОВ В МЕДИЦИНСКИХ ТЕКСТАХ

Вопрос в нашем бюрошном медицинском чате:

«Коллеги, еще такой вопрос: кто-то понимает логику названий шунтов/анастомозов? Они должны писаться слитно или через дефис?

У меня в оригинале «ГОНАДО-ИЛИАКАЛЬНОЕ и ГОНАДО-КАВАЛЬНОЕ шунтирование». Чаще пишется GONADO-ILIAC (через дефис), но GONADOCAVAL чаще слитно, при этом, например, AORTOILIAC почти всегда слитно... Еще в оригинале есть «ГОНАДО-РЕНАЛЬНОЕ или ГОНАДО-КАВАЛЬНОЕ соустье», и вот у GONADORENAL/GONADO-RENAL в гугле примерно поровну вариантов написания через дефис и слитно.

Ответ из стайлгайда American Medical Association Manual of Style:

8.3.1.2 Clarity. Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity. IF A TERM COULD BE MISLEADING WITHOUT A HYPHEN, HYPHENATE IT. As with the use of commas to indicate pauses, the use of the hyphen to provide clarity may be subjective. What is clear to one person may be a source of ambiguity to another.


Под этим же углом смотреть на дефисы призывают и авторы руководства Plain English for Doctors:

Consider writing the word as a hyphenated compound

Sometimes YOU CAN MAKE A CLOSED COMPOUND CLEARER BY WRITING IT AS A HYPHENATED COMPOUND. Consider the closed compound <hyperadrenergic>. Since it is six syllables long, it will lower the reading ease in any sentence where it appears. This compound joins the words, <hyper-> and <adrenergic>, but you can’t find <hyperadrenergic> in Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Instead you have to look up the two parts. Adrenergic is itself a closed compound made up of Latin and Greek roots.

We can make things clearer by writing this word as a hyphenated compound, hyper- adrenergic. (Because people think of hyper- as a prefix, we would not try to write hyper adrenergic as an open compound.)

Or, consider another closed compound, <psychomotor>. Anyone not familiar with this word might try to say, <psy-CHOM-o-tor>, as though it rhymed with barometer. As a result, they also might miss that it is formed from the words <psycho> and <motor>. The right way to pronounce this word is, <PSYcho- MOtor>. It sounds like two words, with the stress at the beginning of each word.

We think it would be clearer to write it as <psycho-motor>. This helps close the gap between how we write and how we speak. It should be easier to read and understand.
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