Volume 2

Āyurvijñāna śabdāvalī : Medical sciences glossary.

  • India. Standing Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology.
Date:
1967-
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    FOREWORD The present publication is the second volume of MEDICAL SCIENCES GLOSSARY in Hindi prepared under the auspices of the Standing Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology. This glossary comprises of equivalents of terms of Orthopoedics, ENT Surgery, Dermatology, Anaesthesiology, Radiology, Nursing and Medical Jurisprudence upto the M. 8. B. S. degree standard. A standard glossary is essential for the promotion of text- books and other scientific literature in Hindi and other regional languages in the country. This glossary has been prepared with this object in view. The Standing Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology was appointed by the Ministry of Education in October, 96] in pursuance of the Presidential Order of 960 and the fcllowing functions were entrusted to it :— (a) Review of the work done so far in the field of scientific and technical terminology in the light of the principles laid down in the Presidential Order ; (b) Formulation of principles relating to co-ordination and evolution of scientific and technical terminology in Hindi and other languages ; (c) Co-ordination of the work done by different agencies in the State in the field of scientific and technical terminology with the consent or at the instance of the State Governments concerned and approval of glossaries for use in Hindi and other Indian languages as may be submitted to it by the concerned agencies ; (d) Preparation of standard scientific text-books using the new terminology evolved or approved by it, preparation of scientific and technical dictionaries and translation into Indian languages of scientific books in foreign langages. The Commission appointed Expert Advisory Committees for the different subjects to review and co-ordinate the terms prepared by the Ministry of Education, Central Hindi Directorate and other academic bodies. The Committees consisted of eminent scholars and teachers representing the different subjects and regional languages. The commission also organised representive seminars to discuss the basic principles of terminology in order to bring about co-ordination of terms between different disciplines. Seminars pertaining to the terms of medical sciences were held at Mysore and Delhi in the year 967 and 68 respecti- vely. In these seminars about 4500 terms of all the minor desciplines of medical sciznces up to M. B. B. S. standard were reviewed discussed and finalised with the help of active teachers of medical colleges of all the linguistic areas. The commission also organised a seminar on the Linguistics of Technical Terminology which was attended by eminent linguists from almost all the linguistic regions of country. They discussed and made recommendations in regard to problem of morphological and phonological processes involved from the point of vizw of maximum uniformity for the Indian languages.