diff --git a/man3/psignal.3 b/man3/psignal.3
index e71da81de..50a612b33 100644
--- a/man3/psignal.3
+++ b/man3/psignal.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:45:17 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .TH PSIGNAL 3  2017-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-psignal, psiginfo \- print signal message
+psignal, psiginfo \- print signal description
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .B #include <signal.h>