PECULIARITIES OF THEMATIC AND STRUCTURAL COMPOSITION OF PERFUSIOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY AS THE BASIS FOR ASSOCIATIVE TYPE OF TERM FORMATION
The article deals with the structural and semantic features of English perfusiological terminology. The results of the study show that this terminology system has an associative nature. Perfusiology like all other recent terminological systems includes a great number of terms from different fields of medicine. Since the core term in this system is «extracorporeal blood circulation» and the procedure is impossible without technical means (artificial circulation apparatus), from the semantic point of view this terminology system is divided into two independent fields (medical and technical ones). Within these fields five semantic groups can be identified and some of them include terms from the both fields. The study concluded that this kind of a terminological system composition and structure is characteristic of new branches of medicine due to a wide use of technical equipment. As a result one of the main criterion for the selection of such terms is the use of a terminological unit in a text of a relevant subject matter.