The Semantic Field of “Chronic Illness”

there is no known cause. Of known causes the most significant is rubella in the mother during the first of pregnancy. This can be prevented by vaccination. About one third of babies with Down’s syndrome have a congenital heart defect, and congenital heart disease often accompanies other birth defects. 60 From both of meanings, heart disease meaning and literal meaning have correlation that heart disease attacks the blood circulation systems of human body and cause the patient death. Cancer means a serious disease in which grows in a cell, this disease is caused by virus that attacks the cell system of the body. Cancer is difficult to be cured, so it can cause death to the patient. According to The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine cancers are not the only type of abnormal growth, or neoplasm, that occur in the body. 61 However, a cancer differs from a benign in two tumors, such as a wart or lymphoma, in two important ways. As it grows, it spreads and infiltrates the tissues around it and may block passageways, destroy nerves and erode bone. Cells from the cancer may spread via the blood vessels and lymphatic channels to other parts of the body, where these metastases for new, satellite tumors that grow independently. 62 From the explanations above the cancer attacks the cells of body and can cause the patient death. 60 Ibid , p. 518 61 Ibid , p. 227 62 Ibid ,. p. 227 Stroke means a serious illness that caused death, stroke attacks the body‟s nervous system, because someone has high cholesterol amount so it can interfere stimulus of blood from or the brain. According to The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine strokes are fatal in about third of cases and are a leading cause of death in developed countries. 63 Possible complications of a major stroke include pneumonia and the formation of blood clots in the veins of the leg, which may travel to the artery supplying the lung to cause a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism. 64 “Virulence Illness” is superordinate or the lexemes cancer and leukemia. It explains that cancer and leukemia have a close meaning because it has some component, except on the forming process attack the blood circulation system. The other lexemes which have close meaning are stroke and heart disease, those lexemes has the same component except on the system is attacked the body‟s nervous the blood circulation system. 63 Ibid , p. 947 64 Ibid ,. p. 947

3. The Semantic Field of “Medical Center”

Table 6: The Componential Analysis from Semantic Field of “medical center” The Semantic Properties The Lexemes HOSPITAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL CLINIC Medical checkup area + + + Physical entity + +_ +_ A feature of the mental life of a living organism +_ _ _ The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically + + +_ The characteristic features of the semantic properties on the table 4 are hypernyms of medical center. From the explanations of the table hospital means a medical checkup area, physical entity, the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically. The hospital is opening every day, provides Opname services and usually owned by the government. According to Free medical of dictionary hospital is an institution which is managed, staffed and equipped for providing healthcare services, including in patient care, surgery, emergent and urgent care and has facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. 65 Many hospitals are 65 The Free Dictionary.Accessed on January 8 th 2015. owned and run by religious orders. 66 Though graduate medical education is conducted in many hospitals, teaching hospitals generally have a close affiliation with universities and medical school. Far more are community hospitals that depend on community-generated contributions. 67 From both of meanings there is correlation that hospital is owned by government or others institutions. Maternity Hospital means a treatment place that provides service for birth it is opening everyday available in 24 hours and has many doctors and nurses. It is usually owned by privacy. According to Free dictionary, maternity hospital is a hospital that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants. 68 From both meanings the writer concludes there is similar meaning maternity hospital is providing care for women during pregnancy. Clinic means a treatment place that owned by privacy. The most of clinic have a complete maintenances facility but clinic not provide opname services. According to Oxford dictionary, clinic is a building or part of a hospital where people can go for special medical treatment or advice. 69 The table above shows that the lexemes HOSPITAL is superordinate of maternity hospital and clinic. 66 Clayman B Charles, The American Medical Association; Encyclopedia of Medicine, New York, Random House New York 1989,p.547 67 Ibid ,. p. 547. 68 The Free Dictionary. Accessed on August 16 th 2011, http:www.thefreedictionary.commaternity+hospital. 69 Ibid , 233

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,