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China Terminology ›› 2024, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 64-71.doi: 10.12339/j.issn.1673-8578.2024.04.008

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A Quantitative Study on the Language Features of Medical Terminology

WAN Mei()   

  • Received:2024-01-10 Revised:2024-05-28 Online:2024-10-05 Published:2024-09-28

Abstract:

Medical terminology refers to professional concepts in the field of medicine and it is an integral part of the Chinese vocabulary system. Language features of medical terminology including components and structural forms follow the regularity of Chinese formation and development with its own properties. This article conducts a quantitative research to examine the characters, word class, number of syllables, structural types of medical terminology based on a corpus, in order to explore the naming motivation and structural rules of these special terms, and provide ontological basis for the standardization of medical terminology.

Key words: medical terminology, language features, quantitative research