MEDICAL TERMS OF NO GREEK OR LATIN ORIGIN

This article considers medical terms borrowed from Arabic, Indian, North American and West European languages. The purpose of the article is to perform a quantitative analysis of specific vocabulary with regard to its frequency of use as medical terminology and to study semantic features of this material. The author identifies seven lexical sets based on the language they belong to, providing a detailed description of the origin of certain lexical units. The research findings revealed clinical and anatomical terms, terms designating treatment methods, diagnostic procedures and processes, as well as eponymous terms