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Chung, Oh, and Lee: Experience for an Anatomist to Participate in Production of the Korean Medical Terminology
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Anat Biol Anthropol 2019;32(1):9-15.

Published online: 20 January 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11637/aba.2019.32.1.9

Experience for an Anatomist to Participate in Production of the Korean Medical Terminology

Min Suk Chung1, Chang-Seok Oh2, Young Il Lee3

1Department of Anatomy, Ajou University School of Medicine

2Department of Anatomy, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

3Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Dankook University

E-mail: dissect@ajou.ac.kr

      Revised 28 February 2019       Accepted 14 March 2019       Accepted 15 March 2019

Copyright © 2019 Korean Association of Physical Anthropologists

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Abstract

Anatomical terms and medical terms have influenced each other in Korea. The first author of this paper participated in making the sixth edition of the Korean medical terminology (2019) as an anatomist. Experience of the participation is announced to help other anatomists trim the anatomical terms. While the fifth edition of medical terminology included the new anatomical terms minimizing the Chinese terms and the old ones maximizing the Chinese terms, the sixth edition remained only one of the new or old anatomical terms in principle. To make the new anatomical terms more persuasive and more acceptable in the seventh edition of the medical terminology, it is necessary to refine the anatomical terms with reference to the sixth edition.

Keywords: Anatomical terms, Medical terms, History of terminology, Refining of Korean terms

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Table 1.
Publishing years of the Korean anatomical terminology and Korean medical terminology in sequential editions.
  1st edition 2nd edition 3rd edition 4th edition 5th edition 6th edition
Anatomical terminology 1978∗ (Old) 1981∗ (Old) 1990 (New) 1996 (New) 2005∗ (New) 2014 (New)
Medical terminology 1977 (Old) 1983 (Old) 1992 (Old) 2001 (New) 2009 (New, old) 2019 (Recommended)

Excluding the histological terms and embryological terms New) means the new terms minimizing the Chinese terms made by Japanese. Old) means the old terms maximizing the Chinese terms made by Japanese. Recommended) means the selected terms between the new and old ones.

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