HISTORY AND CURRENT STATE OF BELARUSIAN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

The article is the first attempt in the history of Belarusian lexicography to summarize the materials on the formation and development of Belarusian medical terminology. Also for the first time the issues of functioning of Belarusian phytonyms and use of dialectal terms of medical vocabulary are considered. Russian-Belarusian dictionaries of medical vocabulary are analyzed in detail.

Keywords

• medical vocabulary
• lexicography
• terms
• phytonyms
• dialectisms
• anemia
• medical dictionaries