GENDER BASED ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION OF MENTAL ACTIVITY IN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

GENDER BASED ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION OF MENTAL ACTIVITY IN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Author:  E.V. Bekisheva

Affiliation:  Samara State Medical University

Abstract: 
The article is devoted to the problems of gender based aspects of Russian medical terminology. our analysis supports the hypothesis about the prevalence of the feminity in the names of diseases, symptoms and syndromes.

Keywords:  gender, medical vocabulary, feminity, gender stereotypes, mythological terms

Pages:  200-203