THE ORIGINS OF MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

The article is dedicated to the description of origins medical terminology. A brief historical note on earliest written sources that have come down us starting with Egyptian treatises in hieroglyphs papyrus given. contribution development terminology such great scientists and philosophers antiquity as Alcmaeon Croton, Homer, Aristotle, Hippocrates followers his school, Hippocratics, considered. Hippocratics were first describe diseases based observation, names given by them many conditions are still used today. etymology terms introduced these article. With Hellenistic era Herophilus, Erisistratatus associated. emergence Alexandria Medical school predetermined Medicine for centuries come. also highlights processes term formation took place Latin from 2nd century BC, namely, borrowing Greek their subsequent latinization. mutual influence process Lucretius Kara, Hippocrates, Celsus, Rufus Ephesus associated Roman period history Throughout science, Greek-Latin penetrated into systems national languages, assimilating turning internationalisms.