{"id":41484,"date":"2018-02-23T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=41484"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:19:52","slug":"neville-goodmans-metaphor-watch-the-whole-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/02\/23\/neville-goodmans-metaphor-watch-the-whole-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville Goodman&#8217;s metaphor watch: The whole spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/neville_goodman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-33270\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/neville_goodman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"neville_goodman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spectrum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> originally meant the same as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spectre<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: a ghost. It was appropriated by Newton in 1671 to describe how sunlight passing through a prism \u201cexhibited\u2026 a Spectrum of divers colours\u201d (OED). The modern definition is \u201cThe entire range of wavelengths (or frequencies) of electromagnetic radiation [or] any one part of this larger range\u201d (OED). Among the figurative uses (The entire range or extent of something, arranged by degree, quality, etc.) cited by the OED is one from medicine, from 1964: \u201cTheoretically, students remain long enough on each type of ward to give them a spectrum of experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To which I have to say: what is wrong with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">range<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> variety<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">? The point about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spectrum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is that it is continuous. Although we talk of the seven colours of the rainbow, they merge into one another: there are no discrete boundaries. To take the example of lung disease: lung cancer, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and lobar pneumonia form a range or variety of diseases, but in no way are they a spectrum. Lung cancer doesn\u2019t merge seamlessly with lobar pneumonia (although they may co-exist). The pathological processes underlying these diseases are discrete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spectrum makes sense for the lymphoproliferative disorders, where pathology does merge, and for many psychiatric conditions, where pathology is a mystery but presentation is protean. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autistic spectrum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> accounted for 14% of all occurrences of spectrum in PubMed\u00ae in 2016, an 18-fold increase since 2000; but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">spectrum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, unlike <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">option<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strategy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, isn\u2019t a vogue word: its overall prevalence in PubMed altered little over that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Broad spectrum antibiotic is well accepted: it is a term of US origin, although the first use that I could find in PubMed was an article in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">South African Medical Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (in 1952) about Ilotycin [erythromycin], described as \u201ca <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> broad-spectrum antibiotic\u201d [my italics], so I presume the term was already extant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spectrum is wrong describing \u201ca spectrum of retinal vessel measures\u201d, which were a number of discrete and different techniques; \u201ca broader spectrum of patients\u2026 undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting\u201d, which was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a wider range<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; \u201celevated systolic blood pressure across its usual spectrum\u201d, which is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hypertension of whatever level<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; \u201cwhether the benefit\u2026 was observed across the spectrum of HF risk\u201d, where the unnecessary abbreviation is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">heart failure<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the spectrum is<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> all patients<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; and \u201ca unique and distinct spectrum of adverse events\u201d, which is an unspeakable horror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another word sometimes used instead of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">range<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gamut<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Originally a term from music, it came to mean \u201cthe whole scale, range, or compass of a thing\u201d (OED). Thus the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">whole<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gamut is unnecessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Neville Goodman<\/strong>\u00a0is a retired consultant anaesthetist and a writer. He is co-author of a book on medical English.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that my only competing interest is my co-authorship of a book about medical English.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectrum originally meant the same as spectre: a ghost. 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