El uso de los términos anatómicos generales empleando la nomenclatura anatómica internacional (TAI) por el médico ortopedista.

The European anatomists headed by the German School and its Anatomical Society, decided to order the great anatomical house so that they were forced to reconsider the problem and establish a structured, systematic, coherent terminology; That would be worth, both to interpret the known in a unanimous way, and to be able to classify and integrate in the same conceptual structure the discoveries or modifications of the future. A study was carried out on an anonymous survey of 101 specialist doctors and postgraduate residents of the university specialization in orthopedics and traumatology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zulia. During the period of october 2016 / march 2017. Knowledge of anatomical nomenclatures, identification of anatomical structures, and the latest bibliographic update on terms and structure of the appendicular skeleton were considered. Of the 101 physicians surveyed, 62.3% were postgraduate residents of the university specialization in Traumatology and Orthopedics, 37.6% specialized in Traumatology and Orthopedics. 99.0% were unaware of a TAI listing of the general terms used in the anatomy of the appendicular skeleton, only 1.9% were aware of that list, but did not remember or was inaccurate their name. When asked in the survey to identify anatomical structures of the appendicular skeleton based on the general terms updated by the TAI, the total 100% could not answer correctly. 100% had surgical activity on the appendicular skeleton. 100% answered not knowing the update time. Conclusion. The International Anatomical Terminology (TAI), as an official source of anatomical terms, is of great benefit, since it falls on the unification of terminological criteria in a fluid, effective and universal anatomical language that allows to avoid the errors of interpretation in the deep learning of the skeleton appendicular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]