FUNCTIONING OF MEDICAL TERMS IN THE STORIES OF A. P. CHEHOV
The article deals with the functioning of medical terms in the stories of A.P. Chehov. The functioning of medical terms within the lexical entity of a literary text is considered to be a part of the important task of description of linguistic aspects of Russian medical terminology. The terminology used in these stories does not only perform a nominating function but it becomes a stylistic device creating the language of the work of fi ction.