Terminologia medyczna w Nowym dykcjonarzu Michała Abrahama Troca na tle źródeł z XVI i XVII wieku.

In this paper, 74 medical terms excerpted from Nowy dykcjonarz (Newdictionary) by Michał Abraham Trotz were subject to semantic and formalanalyses. The relevant material was presented in the context of the medicallexis being in operation in the 16th and 17th centuries and confronted with themedical vocabulary present in the study by W. Bystrzonowski titled Informacyamatematyczna (Mathematical information) of 1749.The analysis of the medical terminology collected by Trotz is aimed to expandour knowledge of the medical vocabulary present in the Polish language of thefi rst half of the 18th century since, as specialists note, there are few studiesdiscussing the medical lexis of that period, and therefore our cognition of thescientifi c sphere of the human activity in this respect is limited.The presented analyses show that the medical terminology collected inNowy dykcjonarz is mainly old lexis, which is well-established in the Polishlanguage, the origin of which is Polish (lexical borrowings include 13 units),and which came into existence as a result of word formation, syntactic, andsemantic derivation. The presence of numerous synonymous names, whichprove, among others, that the Polish medical terminology has still been in thephase of formation, has also been noticed.