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Wound healing, though probably the most critical aspect of essential medical and surgical care, has been neglected for a long time. With the tremendous surge over the last two decades in basic research and in new techniques, wound healing is emerging more and more as a well-defined medical entity transcending existing specialties and subdivisions. Specialists working on the same subject must be known by a common name. There is a need to fill the gap in our current medical nomenclature in order to define all those interested in this subject. With etymologic, semantic and botanical arguments, Vulnerology seems to be an appropriate neologism. It will unite in the same group people who share a common interest and way of thinking to promote the concept of wound healing.