TERM SYNONYMY AND CONCEPT IN MEDICINE
The present work presents considerations of synonymy phenomenon in the area of professional medical terminology from the point of view of conventional semantics and cognitive linguistics. The essence and the interaction of such categories as lexical meaning, concept and scientific notion have been analysed in the article. A series of synonymic paradigms underwent a semanticoconceptual analysis. In the synonymic groups investigation the processes of concept emergence, concept competition and concept division, as well as new terminology formation, have been traced.