Medical Terms Involving药【yào】Morpheme in Modern Chinese Language

For Chinese speakers understanding medical terms, due to their descriptivness, is not so difficult. The most difficult thing is actually translation medical terms into their native language. Chinese medicine is divided into traditional 中医 and Western 西医. This article discusses Western 西医 medical terminology with the participation of morpheme 药【yào 】. The main attention was paid to the neroglyphs in the abbreviated spelling (putonghua). Despite this, to explain the etimology of the hieroglyph an analysis of the full outline of the character 药was carried out along with some features of medical terms word formation with the participation of morpheme 药, such as 1) phrasing 2) affix word 3) the formation of terms by reduction.