The phrase "a specific term for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to refer to a particular word or phrase that describes something precisely.
Example: "In scientific writing, it is important to use a specific term for each concept to avoid confusion."
Alternatives: "a precise term for" or "a particular term for".
The problem has become so acute that policymakers have coined a specific term for this phenomenon of squandered immigrant intellectual talent: brain waste.
Slonimsky didn't have a specific term for the types of compulsively catchy melodies he created, but one came into being in 1979: the German psychiatrist Cornelius Eckert described such tunes as "Ohrwürmer" — earworms.
In the scoring function PLP, there is a specific term for the metal, which is not the case in Goldscore.
It is challenging to find a specific term for the process of 'making something valuable' which is so important for the transformation of inventions into innovations.
If even Darwin used the concept of exaptation without having a specific term for it, one might wonder if we really need to bother with the extra vocabulary word.
The process of separation is so unusual that a specific term for the phenomenon may not have been proposed to the scientific community.
Asserting in a statement that Mr. Bellomo was "one of the leaders of one of the largest and most powerful organized crime groups in the country," she noted that his plea calls for a specific term of 10 years without parole.
Patients were included in the painful diabetic neuropathy cohort if their record contained a specific term; a term for diabetic neuropathy with a prescription for a treatment for pain current at the date of diagnosis; a record of diabetes and a general term for neuropathic pain or record of diabetes and both neuralgia and a treatment for pain current on the date of the neuralgia code.
Phantom limb pain was defined as a specific term or a term for amputation plus either a neuropathy or neuropathic pain record 3 24 months after the first amputation code.
Once this feature was discovered, we developed a specific term, "Two-headedness" for it, with the descriptor Twoheadedness.
It is sold for a specific term, in contrast to whole life insurance, which is intended to remain in force over a lifetime.
