Key Problems in a Medical Terms Translation: Overview of the Issue

Аннотация

This study tackles the key problems of translating medical terms. It uses an evaluative approach to investigate and discussthe problems and intricacies of translating medical terms. The purpose of the study is to display the difficulties of translating medical terms and how they were tackled by academicians and translators who are competent in medical translation who work in the medical field. The study adopts a qualitative-quantitative approach. It focuses on different types of medical terms, excluding pharmacy-related terms. As medical terms are the key components of medical texts, the research was centered around diversified English medical terms taken from different medical reports, namely National Health Service (NHS) leaflets and flyers and World Health Organization (WHO) reports for 2018 and 2019.