An English New Word “Painology” Should Be Made to Name the Pain Medicine —— A Discuss On the Pain Medicine to Be a Discipline
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Background: In the pain science research field, there is no suitable English term to describe the pain medicine as discipline, “pain medicine” is only to make a general reference to this field, which is not refer to a special discipline. This count against the knowledge and the development of pain research. Objective: This paper aimed to make a word to name the pain medicine as a whole body. In order to make the pain medicine to be an independent discipline. Methods: In the English vocabulary, There is another word “algology”, which sometimes means pain treatment, but its main meaning is a discipline to research sea plant. I don’t agree with this word to name the pain discipline because it can not to make a distinction between the two meanings usually. So we suggest creating a new English term “Painology”, that is Pain + ology to describe this new discipline, using this new term to replace “pain medicine", because there is no other English term suitable for this purpose. Results: The facts mentioned in the paper turned out to be right. CMA and all the authors of my journal approve to name the Chinese pain journal to be “Chinese Journal of Painology "in 2020. Now the name of pain department in most of hospital in China is Department of Painology taken the place of Department of Pain Medicine and Department of Pain Management. Conclusion: The new term “Paiology” is correct for the pain discipline, and we hope that the medical science and the terminology organization in the world could accept our suggestion to name the new discipline painology.
Authors: Li Zhang, Zhen Wu, Xiao Liu
Language: English
Subfield: Anatomy
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414584392
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