METAPHOR IN ENGLISH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CLINICAL DISCOURSE OF GASTROENTEROLOGY)

The aim of the study was to investigate functioning of metaphor in medical terminology of gastroenterology. The article analyses the process of metaphor formation, relationships between the concepts of metaphor and term, role of metaphor in a medical discourse. Material of the study was 54 metaphors on gastroenterology. Structural and semantic analysis of the above terms was performed, general categories and ways of metaphor formation were identified. It is concluded that in medical terminology of gastroenterology multicomponent terms are most common, the category of household metaphors dominates in the lexicon of gastroenterologist.