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On the Characteristics and Translation Strategies of Medical English Words 　　【Abstract】English as an international language is widely used not only in the international communication， but also in many scientific literatures. For medical students and workers， in order to understand and learn foreign advanced medical technology， it is necessary to have a certain ability of translating medical English.It is no doubt that the translation of professional terms in the respective fields becomes the focus of medical English learning. Medical English words is the foundation of medical English learning and accurate translation of medical words is critical for grasping the essays gist. Therefore， it has become the most important thing to learn medical English words. 　　【Key words】medical English； words characteristics； translation strategies 　　1. Characteristics of Medical English Words 　　1.1 Historical Characteristics 　　The Greek culture is earlier than the Roman culture ，many Latin words come from Greek. Hippocrates （460-377 BC）， the famous medical scientist of ancient Greek， has abundant medical knowledge and his medical wealth was inherited by the Romans as the origin of Western medicine. The Romans， under the leadership of the Kaiser emperor， invaded the British Isles in 55 B. C. Thus the Latin was introduced into the United Kingdom and Rome was mixed with English in this period. Another important period was the Renaissance. People paid attention to the study of Greek .In 1895， Latin had gradually become the international medical language. “It is reported that more than 75% of medical English words are from Latin and Greece， which means perhaps either the whole words or a part of the words are from Latin and Greece.”Until now Medical English has formed its own characteristics with the development of the history. 　　1.2 Morphological Characteristics 　　1.2.1 Morpheme of Medical English Words 　　It is not difficult to find that almost every medical terminology is co