THE PROBLEM OF HOMONYMY AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY (A CASE STUDY OF MULTI-STRUCTURAL LANGUAGES)

Abstract

This article discusses the problem of homonymy in the medical terminology of English, Russian and Tatar languages. The study of medical terminology is priority, since medicine is constantly evolving and the vocabulary of languages, including national ones, is developed with new terms. Homonymy of terms is a very important problem in medical terminology. In addition, homonymy in the medical terminological system of English, Russian and Tatar languages in a comparative aspect has not yet been studied. This study will help to order the terms, which plays an important role in compiling dictionaries and translating medical texts from one language to another, taking into account the peculiarities of the phenomenon of homonymy in the terminological systems of each of the languages under discission. The article studies the opinions of various scholars regarding the ambiguity of terms, signs that homonymy should have; f brief overview of the method of distinguishing homonymy and polysemy – a component analysis of definitions of ambiguous terms – is given. The main part of the study is devoted to the features of the phenomenon of homonymy in the languages under consideration. The point at issue is various classifications of homonymic terms based on the lexical and grammatical features of ambiguous terms, the completeness or incompleteness of the coincidence of their paradigms. The authors identify the similarities and differences of homonymous relations in English, Russian and Tatar languages.