Formation of Clinical Terminological Units on the Example of New Human Infectious Diseases According to WHO Recommendations (based on English)

Abstract

Today, we observe rapid growth in medical science achievements and their fields. We are witnessing that the fact of discovery is often ahead of the nomination of new phenomena. This obvious observation demonstrates the insufficient level and volume of activity in streamlining medical terminology. WHO recommendations have been published to standardize and streamline clinical terminology (names of new human infectious diseases). In this case, the authors set a goal to describe how the names of new human diseases appear, their structure, and the degree of compliance with WHO recommendations. The purpose of this study is to describe the ways in which the names of new diseases appear, to consider them structurally and to determine the degree of compliance with WHO recommendations. The study was conducted on the basis of morphological, semantic, lexicographic method and componential analysis of units. Using linguistic modeling, we found that the use of a complex (lexical-semantic and syntactic) method of nomination is characteristic when naming a new disease. The trends in English clinical terminology on the use of multicomponent terminological combinations with their transparent internal form become visible. As a result of the study, it was found that the term in medical discourse is approaching unambiguity, where terminological units should occupy a strictly defined place in the term system and strive for an unambiguous relationship between the form and content of this term. The obtained results contribute to the study of the problems of modern English clinical terminology and substantiation of the development trends.