Study on international standard multilingual nomenclature of Chinese medicine.
The International Standard Chinese-English Basic Nomenclature of Chinese medicine (ISN) was released in 2007, a nomenclature list consisting of 6 500 Chinese medical terms. ISN was the culmination of several years of collaborative diligent work of over 200 specialists who represent Chinese medicine in 68 countries. The overall goal for devising standard English nomenclature for Chinese medicine is to develop a practical international standard nomenclature for Chinese medical basic terms, to make it compatible with contemporary research and educational standards in the globalized health care service. In this article, provided is an overview of principles and methods for the multilingual translations, the processes behind the particular content of the Chinese-English ISN and an introduction to the ongoing new projects, i.e. the multilingual versions of ISN (International Standards of Chinese-Spanish, Chinese-French and Chinese-Portuguese Basic Nomenclature of Chinese Medicine).
Wang
Kui
K
Translation Department, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, Beijing (100101), China. wangkuixy@163.com
Liu
Lu
L
Li
Wei
W
Shi
Da-zhuo
DZ
Zeng
Wen-ying
WY
Zhu
Mian-sheng
MS
Angles
Michel
M
Attali
Jean-Raymond
JR
Choy
Pedro
P
Choy
Joao
J
Wu
Chi-haur
CH
Zhai
Fu-han
FH
Ramon
Maria Calduch
MC
Chung
Ching
C
D000715:Anatomy / Q000592:standards; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D019303:Multilingualism; D011642:Publications / Q000592:standards; D012015:Reference Standards; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014175:Translating; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled; D014944:World Health Organization
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal