STRUCTURAL AND NOMINATIVE FACTORS TO DETERMINE THE MEANING OF MEDICAL TERMS IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH

The article raises the issue of structural and semantic features term origin in modern English medical discourse. Characteristics such a plan include description internal form units terminology, their etymology morphological structure which are supported by human cognitive activity nominative act. In view inner under analysis, it appears that many names for phenomena were coined on basis people’s or surnames, functional needs, qualitative characteristics, body parts other features. most productive ways formation contemporary morphological, syntactic word formation. Considering etymological roots terms, with Latin refer to part sometimes pathologies. Terms founded Greek root signify pathology disease. terminology there dominate words word-forming elements, them included nomenclature Latin, but they can be traced language. Prefixes suffixes pattern terms play an important role revealing meaning. popular type combinations is two-component attributive phrase containing nuclear element, mostly noun case attributive, defining element. On whole, meaning determined extralinguistic information reflected lexemes also peculiarities as content constituent elements roots, affixes, compound clusters. method presupposes transition from sciences, borrowing languages, terminologizing, metaphorical metonymic transference.