Objective: The question of the frequency of the terms of foreign origin proposed as Turkish correspondings to the Latin terms in Nomina Anatomica is tackled in this study.
Material and method: We determined 19 Turkish anatomical and medical dictionaries as references in this study. We prepared a reference list of terms in Latin from which we searched for the correspondings in the latest index of the anatomy terms, the “Terminologia Anatomica”.
Results: We made a list of 1658 terms in Latin from Terminologia Anatomica to search for their equivalents. 28.1% of the terms proposed in the dictionaries were of foreign origin as we analysed them using the “Contemporary Turkish Dictionary” of Turkish Language Foundation. Of these terms 44.9% were from Arabic, 27.7% were from Persian, 19.3% were from French, 4.1% were from Greek, 1.7% were from Latin, 0.9% were from Mongolian, 0.6% were from Italian, 0.6% were from Armenian and 0.2% were from English languages.
Conclusions: We claim that the efforts of generating Turkish equivalents for the anatomical terms must be expedited.
Key Words: Anatomy, Terminology, Etymology, Turkish term, Foreign term.
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