Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 5

The importance of medical units in English and Uzbek as a source of linguistic research

1Associate Professor, PhD, Head of the Department of Translation Studies and Language Education at Bukhara State University, Uzbekistan

2First year Master's Degree Student, Comparative Linguistics and Linguistic Translation, Department of Translation Studies and Linguodidactics, Bukhara State University, Uzbekistan, Email id: zarifayoriyeva@gmail.com

Online Published on 30 June, 2022.

Abstract

This article provides a general overview of the main problems of medical vocabulary and terminology. It also discusses some of the characteristic features of the medical language: terminology, including eponyms and terms from several words, affixation, word composition, doublet phenomenon, polysemy and synonymy. The next issue presented in this article is translation for non-professionals and professional audiences. Considerable attention is paid to the problems of translating medical texts and other issues, such as the qualification of medical translators, verification and review.

Keywords

Affixes, Accuracy, Abbreviations, Translation Error, Medical Terminology, Medical Translation, Eponym, Term, Word-Forming Elements, Medical Terminology