The Function of Eponymous Terms in Modern Latin Medical Terminology and Their Reflection on the Bulgarian System

The research subject of the present text is the eponymous terms, part of the Latin medical terminology and their reflection on the Bulgarian system. References are made, when necessary, to examples found in English, when an influence on the other two systems on the focus of investigation is observed. The interest in the studied terminological units is caused, on the one hand, by their significant number in all the three subsystems of medical science – anatomical, clinical and pharmaceutical, as well as by the rules in their updating, regulation and codification that could be defined as inhomogeneous. Lexicographic excerpt and linguistic analysis were applied as the main research methods here. Specialized books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and other materials were used as sources of scientific information. The examples are classified according to their syntactic structure, as well as thematically depending on the type of the basic onym that is used for their derivation. The latest trends related to their usage and functioning within the framework of international specialized vocabulary are also monitored and commented on.