Russian-English medical dictionary

444 Pages·1958·70.49 MB·Russian, English

by  STANLEY JABLONSKI

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RUSSIAN-ENGLISH
MEDICAL DICTIONARY
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RUSSIAN'ENGLISH
MEDICAL DICTIONARY
STANLEY JABLONSKI
National Library of Medicine
Washington, D. C.
Edited by
BEN. S. LEVINE
Formerly with U.S. Public Health Service
Bethesda, Maryland
and
Cincinnati, Ohio
ACADEMIC PRESS INC., NEW YORK 1958
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PREFACE
One of the principal causes of lag in the progress of scientific
translation is the lack of adequate dictionaries. This volume fills a
long felt need. Strange as it may seem, the only modern medical
dictionary hitherto available that contained English equivalents for
Russian medical terms was a Russian-English-Chinese polyglot
dictionary compiled by Ho and published in Peiping in 1954; this
publication is not easily available in American and European libraries.
In a survey published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library
Association (Vol. 45, pp. 149—154, April 1957) the compiler of this
dictionary stated that “Russian-English medical translation is not
as difficult as it is commonly believed. Bridged by common Latin and
Greek origins and by a continuously increasing exchange of informa-
tion through more than a thousand medical periodicals published in
both languages, Russian and English medical terminologies developed
almost as many similarities as any other two languages of the same
linguistic family. It would be misleading, however, to assume that
translation of Russian medical texts into English is very simple, for
in spite of many similarities, the medical terminologies of both
languages also contain many dissimilarities. Many Russian medical
terms, although of Greek, Latin, or even of English origin, under-
went phonetic and grammatical adaptations and, consequently,
became unrecognizable to the western ear; in many instances,
regardless of the availability of words of foreign origin, Russian
writers prefer native terms; and, especially in paramedical fields such
as pharmacognosy, pharmacy, zoology, and in certain other areas,
the Russian language developed terminologies based almost entirely
on words of Slavic origin. Even in the presence of these and other
difficulties, a good student of English medical terminology equipped
with some linguistic background with the aid of a good Russian-
English medical dictionary should be able to understand a fairly
complex medical article written in Russian. Unfortunately, such a
dictionary is not available. The lack of an extensive bilingual Russian-
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English medical dictionary makes translation difficult even for an
experienced translator.” In compiling the present work, Mr. Jablonski
has made a major contribution in closing this gap.
The preparation of a technical bilingual dictionary is an onerous
and time-consuming task. His colleagues at the National Library of
Medicine are aware of the years of hard effort, above and beyond his
daily work of translating and indexing, which Mr. Jablonski has
devoted to this compilation, and they believe that all of medical
scholarship is thereby in his debt.
FRANK B. ROGERS, M. D.
Director, National Library of Medicine
Washington D. G.
March 1958