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NUTRIPATH [1 record]

Record 1 2003-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paramedical Staff
DEF

Specialist in nutrition who assesses the patient and suggests treatment.

OBS

Apparently related to the nutritionist, who is concerned with nutrition on a more general scale, and to the therapeutic dietitian, who plans meals on the basis of the requirements determined by the physician (but does not analyze the patient(s) himself (themselves).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel para-médical
DEF

Personne spécialisée dans le traitement des problèmes de nutrition et la prescription de régimes thérapeutiques.

CONT

Aux diététistes et aux nutritionnistes viennent s'ajouter les diétothérapeutes qui veulent remettre leurs malades sur pied grâce à un régime alimentaire approprié.

OBS

Le calque «nutripathe» présenterait l'inconvénient de confondre étymologiquement celui qui souffre et celui qui soigne, puisque le formant-pathe (du grec patein) signifie souffrir.

OBS

diétothérapeute : Terme entériné par le Comité de linguistique de Radio-Canada et le Secrétariat d'État du Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Personal paramédico
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