Language of medicine: from sign to chronicle

Theaim of the present article is to understand the essence of the Language of Medicine, the basis of whichis a sign that reports to a human being about existence of death, pain, illness. Taking into account theopposition between the language of medicine and the general language, the language of medicine is theresult (enclosed in terms) of interpretation and consolidation of the pathological facts destroyinghuman life and so it appears possibile to compare the language of medicine with the special documentwhere the human being is represented as Homo patiens. The history of the language of medicinedevelops as a history of illnesses, because every historic epoch brought its contribution into medicallanguage forming by presenting one predominant illness that is given the name representing itsessence. Due to this the essence of the language of the medicine is revealed by its fundamental trait -terminology genesis that is characterized as 1) homogeneous, 2) geterochronic and 3) hereditary. Firstis funded by the word corpus of ancient Greek and Latin languages; second - by medical termsappearance in different time periods and the third - by the linguistic source of knowledge representedin the terminology genesis. In this case terminology genesis represents itself as the chronicle of themedicine composed by generations of medicus. This chronicle unites different worlds perceptions:human and medical, social and individual, temporary and connected with many epochs - and this isspiritual heredity enclosed in terms. The term has cultural and historic sources that take beginning inthe invariant idea of the law of bounds that refers to the established world order, in which every thinghas its place determined by the time factor. The term itself implements two functions: methodological(level of cognition) and socio-philosophical (level of world-view). Functioning on the level ofmedicine these two interrelated functions help to streamline medical knowledge and by that - toprevent distorting of the terms meanings.

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