diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 480897a92..7a5af76f4 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ in the location pointed to by
 .IR "(int\ *) arg2" .
 .TP
 .BR PR_SET_DUMPABLE " (since Linux 2.3.20)"
-Set the state of the "dumpable" flag,
+Set the state of the "dumpable" attribute,
 which determines whether core dumps are produced for the calling process
 upon delivery of a signal whose default behavior is to produce a core dump.
 .IP
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ for security reasons, this feature has been removed.
 in
 .BR proc (5).)
 .IP
-Normally, this flag is set to 1.
+Normally, the "dumpable" attribue is set to 1.
 However, it is reset to the current value contained in the file
 .IR /proc/sys/fs/\:suid_dumpable
 (which by default has the value 0),
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ directory is affected as described in
 .TP
 .BR PR_GET_DUMPABLE " (since Linux 2.3.20)"
 Return (as the function result) the current state of the calling
-process's dumpable flag.
+process's dumpable attribute.
 .\" Since Linux 2.6.13, the dumpable flag can have the value 2,
 .\" but in 2.6.13 PR_GET_DUMPABLE simply returns 1 if the dumpable
 .\" flags has a nonzero value.  This was fixed in 2.6.14.