STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC ASPECTS OF MODERN ENGLISH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Yuliia Shpak
Keywords:
medical terminology, structure, lexical semantic approachAbstract
Terminology is an important component of linguistics, which allows for solving many theoretical and practical issues of the formation and functioning of the terminological apparatus of various fields of human life. The current medical terminology system is not set forever in any language as new terms continue appearing constantly and intensively. The object of the study was medical terminology of the modern English language. This study aims to give a general characteristic of main structural and semantic types of medical terms. The research was based on the material from textbooks on medical terminology and specialized dictionaries. Thus, the study demonstrates some patterns of term structures related to ways of forming new vocabulary in general. Based on the lexical semantic approach, the studied examples of medical terminology were divided into eight thematic groups.
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