Principles of medical terms preliminary screening and presentation in educational terminological dictionary of a new type

In the article the author’s experience of creation an educational dictionary on physiology is represented, the major problems of preliminary screening and presentation of medical terms in a dictionary of this kind are under analysis. The article also suggests a possible variant of including the associative terms into the dictionary entry on the example of physiology terminological units.

educational lexicography, educational dictionary, medical terms, medical terms-metaphors, associative terms, terminological synonymy