Let's not get carried away here; the origin of the use of that term is to replace the awkwardness of saying "the thing that points or makes reference to that other thing" over and over. "Pointer" is a natural name for that thing. And of course Reference is CS jargon, with many meanings :-)
> The latin/greek terms themselves were bread and butter words
> in latin and greek, but sounded "learned" in English.
> There's no difference between "hematoma" and "blood clot."
Except that "hematoma" isn't a Greek word: it's based on the hemat- root, but it's not a word unto itself in any language other than English ... and it came into use in the mid 19th century, not while medicine was getting formalized.
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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging :-)
/jordan