The Semantic Field of “Medical Center”

4. The Semantic Field of “Healthy Occupations”

Table 7: The Componential Analysis from Semantic Field “Healthy Occupation” The Semantic Properties The Lexemes DOCTOR NURSE DENTIST The principal activity in people‟s life that people do to earn money + + + Serving patients + + + Fundamental quantity + + + Take care of people‟s teeth _ _ + Providing care to patients +_ + +_ Can set up a privacy clinic institution + _ + Responsible to patient + _ + The characteristic features of the semantic properties on the table 4 are hypernyms of healthy occupation. The table above shows that Doctor means a person has principal activity that people do to earn money, works in hospital to serve patients and has a responsible to make a patient get well. Doctor can prescribe medication to patient and also can set up a privacy clinic. According to Medicine.net doctor: in a medical context, any medical professional with an MD, a PhD, or any other doctoral degree. The term doctor is quite unspecific. A doctor may, for example, be a physician, psychologist, biomedical scientist, dentist, or veterinarian. 70 In nonmedical context, a professor of history might be addressed as a doctor, an eminent theologian might be named a doctor of a church, and a person awarded an honorary doctorate by a college or university might also be called a doctor. 71 Nurse means a person has principal activity that people do to earn money, works in hospital to serve patient with providing care to patients but nurse cannot give prescribe medication to patient and has not a responsible to make a patients get well, beside that a nurse cannot set up a privacy clinic or medics institution. According to The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medical nurse is a person trained in nursing care. 72 Registered nurses RNs are registered and licensed by a state to care for the sick and to promote health. They work in hospitals, nursing homes, p hysicians‟ offices, clinics, workplaces, schools, and patients‟ homes. Types of nurses 1. Nurse Midwifery has a special training in prenatal and postnatal care, labor, and delivery. 2. Nurse Practitioners or nurse clinicians are trained to provide health services such as preventive care, physical examinations, and health counseling under the supervision of a physician. 70 http:www.medicinenet.comscriptmainart.asp?articlekey=9237 71 Ibid . 72 Clayman B Charles, The American Medical Association; Encyclopedia of Medicine, New York, Random House New York 1989,p.735 3. Licensed Practical Nurses LPNs, who are trained to provide basic care for patients under the supervision of physicians and RNs. Nurses‟ aides assist nurses in hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics. 73 Dentist means a person has principal activity that people do to earn money, that works in hospital to serve patient with take care of people‟s teeth and has a responsible to make a patient get well. A dentist can set up a privacy clinic or institution. According to The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine dentist is the equivalent of the family practitioner for teeth. 74 Dentist perform regular checkups, clean teeth, fill cavities, extract teeth, correct the problems with tooth alignment, and provide and fit bridges andor dentures to replace missing teeth. They also check for cancer of the mouth, perform cosmetic procedures and give general advice on how to care for the teeth and gums. 75 The table shows that the lexemes “doctor” is superordinate of the lexemes dentist. 73 Ibid .. p. 735 74 Ibid , p.324 75 Ibid , p.342