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TRANSLATING FOR THE HEALTHCARE AND MEDICAL FIELDS
Scientific supervisor:
Abduraxmonov Toʻraxon,
Shuxratova Muattaroy Muxammad qizi
student of
Andijan State Institute of Foreign Languages
Abstract:
This article discusses one of the most important components of the
discipline of linguistics as it progressed and expanded its scope of investigation.
Medical terminology denoting international relations have a vital role in the lexicon of
any language, including English and Uzbek. Term encounters are unavoidable in the
process of merging language and culture, particularly in the act of translation.
Keywords
: Phraseological units, linguoculture, idioms, cultural metaphor,
medical, prefix.
Medical terminology is the vocabulary of the medical profession. It’s
the specialised language of Western medicine, used to describe everything from
the human div – its parts, processes, functions, dysfunctions and diseases – to all
the medical procedures, interventions and pharmaceutical treatments. It’s basically the
common language medical professionals use to quickly understand each other.
In language, morphology refers to how words are formed and relate to other
words. The morphology of medical language works quite simply. Words are formed
by combining different base elements, usually from Latin, to accurately describe any
possible conditions of the human div. These elements are prefixes, root words,
combining vowels and suffixes, of which each term will be a combination [1].
The prefix is placed at the start of a word to modify its meaning.
The root is the main part of the word.
The suffix is placed at the end of the root, also to modify the meaning.
For example, the word Gastroenteritis can be broken down into a prefix ‘gastro’,
a root word ‘enter’, and a suffix ‘itis’:
Gastro – stomach
Enter – intestines
Itis – Inflammation
Through
this
breakdown,
we
can
understand
that
Gastroenteritis
means inflammation of the stomach and small intestine.
Doctors and medical health professionals also make use of abbreviations to
quickly communicate information. Abbreviations and acronyms are commonly used as
shorthand, either for instructions on prescribed medication, to describe test results, or
to quickly refer to medical conditions or parts of the div.
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It’s probably obvious to you by the way it sounds, that medical terminology finds
its origins in ancient Latin and Greek. According to the National Institutes of
Health, the oldest recorded medical writings are those of the ancient Greek
Hippocrates, also called the ‘father of medicine’, dating back to the 5
th
century BC.
Another significant figure whose writing are still used was the Greek doctor Galen.
When Rome conquered Greece, both cultures and languages merged and from this
came new terminology for medical concepts and treatment. All of this was written by
hand and passed down through history [2].
During the Renaissance, many Latin words were used to describe the human
div. Apart from Greek and Latin, numerous other languages have made their
contributions to medical terminology over time, including Arabic, Chinese, Gaelic,
Dutch, Italian, German, French and Spanish.
In medicine, from ancient times to the present, not strict terms inherent in the exact
sciences are used, but figurative expressions, mythological and folklore names. These
expressions may not always be clear to the beginning doctor. But, as you know,
emotionally colored information is assimilated better and more fully. In a conversation
with patients, it is advisable to speak in simple language: kindly, to avoid scientific
expressions loaded with incomprehensible words - hyperthyroidism, cardiac seizure,
sebaceous liver. In the following items we can see the reflection of some phraseological
units describing some physiological processes. They can be used in the speech of
doctors’ communication processes according to avoid imparting directly the patients’
physiological position. For instance, in English language we can utilize following
idioms instead of “die”: to pass away, breathe one’s last, gone to a better place, go to
the big place in the sky, join the great majority, kick the bucket, step off and so on [3].
In Uzbek language we can encounter the phraseological units that can be used
instead of “to die”: ko’zi tindi, dunyodan o’tmoq, ko’z yummoq, umr o’tkazmoq, umr
ko’rmoq, olamdan o’tmoq.
As we going on to list idioms clarifying physiological processes we can input the
phraseological units used instead of “to bear”.
Following idioms can give the linguocultural description of the verb “to bear”:
give birth to, bring into being, bring to life, give life to, call into existence, and endow
with life. We can see the Uzbek equivalents of the given idioms: ko’zi yorimoq,
dunyoga keltirmoq, kindik qoni to’kilmoq, dunyoga kelmoq. Moreover, there are some
idioms or phraseological units that conjuring up physiological scenes suchlike puberty,
senility, being ill, recovering from illness.
Equivalently, subsequent line of idioms can be applied as an linguocultural
alternative of “puberty”: to be no spring chicken, age of majority, awkward age, going
through puberty, leading strings. Furthermore in Uzbek language one can discover the
samples that implemented instead of “puberty age”: esini tanimoq, og’zidan ona suti
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anqib turgan, ko’zga tashlanmoq, ko’zga ko’rinib qolmoq. Senility age is considered
to be one of the physiological procedures of human beings. While communicating with
old people doctors should pay their concentration on explicating their plight.
In this moment, they can address to them with idioms suchlike: to have senior
moment, to be not over the hill yet, to be in her early twenties, to be young at heart,
long in the tooth.
In additional, in Uzbek nationality we can be witness of using idioms explaining
senility age: yoshi bir joyga yetmoq, alifdek qomati bukilmoq, yoshi o’tmoq, sochlari
oqarmoq so on and so forth. Given examples describe lingual cultural colour of the
both language.
So, we investigated a linguocultural analysis of the verb "to bear" and its
associative idioms in English and Uzbek languages. We explored how different
physiological stages of life such as birth, puberty, and senility are expressed through
culturally rich idiomatic expressions. By comparing English idioms like "give birth to,"
"no spring chicken," and "long in the tooth" with their Uzbek counterparts such as
"ko‘zi yorimoq," "esini tanimoq," and "yoshi bir joyga yetmoq," the study highlights
the deep cultural values and societal perceptions embedded in language.
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