PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION OF MEDICAL TERMS IN UZBEK AND ENLISH LANGUAGES

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This article offers a general overview of the major issues in medical lexicon and terminology. It also discusses certain characteristic features of medical language: terminology, including eponyms and multi-word terms, affixation, word compounding, the doublet phenomenon, polysemy and synonymy. Translating for lay-readers and professional audiences is the next issue presented in this article. Considerable attention is devoted to problems in translating medical texts, and other issues, such as qualifications of medical translators, verification and review.