Actual issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice (2016). Volume 33. P. 125-133.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2016.33.125-133


LARYSA SHEVCHENKO, VOLODYMYR SHMATKO

 

SYNCRETISM OF DENTAL TERMINOLOGY
IN SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION of MEDICAL KNOWLEDGe


Abstract. The article touches upon the problem of syncretism as dominant characteristic of modern dental terminology. The authors investigate the integrity of medical terms in the scientific metalanguage with the terms of other branches of professional knowledge, that technologically and pharmacologically provide dental theory and practice. The aspects of lexical-semantic and conceptual parity of dental terms in Ukrainian and English laaguages are also analyzed in the article.

 

Key words: stomatology, dental terminological system, syncretism of dental terminology, metalanguage of science, theoretical and practical medicine, general scientific terminology, special terminology.

 

Information about authors: Shevchenko Larysa Ivanivna – doctor of philology, professor; head of the department of stylistics and language communication; Institute of philology; Kyiv national Taras Shevchenko university;

Shmatko Volodymyr Ivanovych – candidate of medical sciences, associate professor; associate professor of department of pediatric dentistry and prevention of dental diseases; stomatological faculty; National O.O. Bohomolets medical university.

 

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