The semantic changes of general English words in medical examination English, such as tender, plastic, plastic in medical English, change labor from labor to delivery.
Translation from the original meaning of etymology and root. From the etymological point of view, Greek and Latin morphemes occupy a very high proportion in medical and medical English vocabulary.
According to OscarE. According to Nybaken's statistics, about 46% of the 10,000 most common English words come from Latin; 7.2% comes from Greek. Greek and Latin morphemes are the important and main basis of medical English vocabulary, which shows that medical English is more "international" than ordinary English.
This is related to their own characteristics, while the first two languages are relatively "rigid" in use, generally called "dead" languages in linguistics, and their vocabulary no longer changes in form and meaning, so they are highly integrated languages.
Because of the rich affixes, different stems make up countless new words. There are 304 micro-prefix entries in the Dictionary of Science and Technology (edited by Daniel N Lapedas), hydr-
There are 292 entries prefixed with (hydro-). Therefore, it is extremely important to master prefixes, simple suffixes and compound suffixes in medical English. For example, the prefix peri-"about" can be composed of perinatal period; Periodontitis periodontitis; Perifocal lesions; Wait a minute.
Simple suffix -ia stands for "a certain situation or state"; For example: ataxia "* * * * * ataxia"; Dementia "dementia"; Dysplasia is a compound suffix of hypoplasia-megaly means hypertrophy, such as hepatomegaly; Spleen enlargement "splenomegaly"; Acromegaly "Acromegaly"?
In the use of words, especially verbs, medical science English uses more standardized written verbs instead of phrasal verbs in spoken English; Like evaporation instead of to? Turn? Become? Steam; Discover instead of going? Found it? Out; Absorb instead of go? Take? Yes, wait
Verb or noun derivatives are widely used in medical examination English. There are many adjectives that describe various phenomena, material characteristics, quantity, size, level, nature and state. Most of them come from verb nouns, such as nouns plus -ic, -ious,-Al; Verbs plus -ing, -ive, -able and so on.