PARONYMY IN THE SUBLANGUAGE OF MEDICINE (LINGUISTIC AND LINGUO-DIDACTIC ASPECTS).

The present paper examines the phenomenon of paronymy in the sublanguage of medicine. The study of paronyms plays an important role in the development of terminological competence of future specialists in the field of medicine and healthcare. The authors emphasize the need to pay due attention to terminological paronyms when compiling teaching manuals and developing didactic materials in Latin for students of medical universities. The urgency of organizing the work with these lexical units is determined, on the one hand, by the propaedeutic objective - minimization of difficulties that students may encounter in dealing with special terminology in the process of educational and professional communication; on the other hand, the study of paronyms is aimed at expanding the active and passive vocabulary of medical students. The objective of the research is to systematize paronyms in the international medical terminology, to develop the cycle of training assignments and methodological recommendations for organizing the work with this group of lexical units, and minimizing errors in oral and written speech of medical students. The authors have justified the methodological algorithm for the proposed cycle of tasks: presentation of the basic paronymic pairs, learning the vocabulary, control of mastering the material, creation of didactic conditions for correction and propaedeutics of speech errors; revision of the material. The proposed cycle of educational tasks is aimed at improving the lexical, grammatical, word-building, spelling knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as expanding and enriching the vocabulary of future medical professionals. The study may be of interest to specialists in the field of translation and terminology studies, professional linguo-didactics. The prospects for study consist in further in-depth research of the phenomenon of paronymy in the sublanguage of medicine and comprehensive analysis of other lexico-semantic relationships, the practical result of which will be the compilation of Latin medical dictionary of synonyms, homonyms and paronyms.