Wilder, Nenral Terms. 245 



inally Pomptmus, and refers to a district of Italy. As already 

 pointed out by me (article Anatomical Terminology, Buck's 

 Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, VIII, 524, §5o)> 

 the only legitimate Latin adjective {vom pons is pontilis, and its 

 Angloparonym \s pontile. The use of any other form tends 

 to cause confusion and to bring discredit upon medical 

 scholarship," 



Pa7't IV. Comparison of the Terms Adopted by the American 



Neurological Association with those Adopted by the Anat- 



onuscJie Gesellschaft. 



§100. In the accompanying Table III are given in par- 

 allel columns (i) the forty terms adopted by the A. N. A.; (2) 

 the corresponding terms adopted by the Anatomische Gesell- 

 schaft ; (3j some of the Latin synonyms. 



§101. Probably few will question the inferiority of the 

 discarded synonyms in the third column ; hence are here con- 

 sidered mainly the relative merits of the two other sets. ^ 



§102. The extent of agreement is impressive and en- 

 couraging. With the following twenty-four terms there is abso- 

 lute consensus between the American and the German commit- 

 tees : Claustrum ; Clava ; Cuneus ; Fissura calcarina ; F. collat- 

 eralis ; F. hippocampi ; Fornix ; Hippocampus ; Hypophysis ; 

 Infundibulum ; Insula ; Lemniscus ; Mesencephalon ; Monticu- 

 lus ; Oliva; Operculum;^ Pallium; Pons; Praecuneus ; Pulvi- 

 nar ; Tegmentum; Thalamus; Vermis; Vertebra thoracalis. 



§103. With the following ten terms the differences lie 

 merely in the retention by the Germans of certain words which 

 the Americans regard as superfluous. In the following list these 

 words are italicized: Q,2\q2.x avis (§105); Corpus callosum (§111); 



1 The case of this term is peculiar. The German committee particularize 

 ihret Y>^x\.s, frontal, farietal a.nA tet?!poral oi a general operculum. The Neuro- 

 logical Association regards the parietal portion as the operculum, the frontal and 

 temporal being so specified. (By the present writer these are designated as 

 praeoperculum z.t\A postopercidum, and the orbital -^^oxi^on as suboperculum.) It will 

 be seen therefore that while the word operculum is identical with both commit- 

 tees, its significance is general with the German and special with the American. 



