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A critical analysis of terms and concepts in medical radiology, radiation safety and medical physics in a multilingual dictionary developed within the framework of the international project EMITEL2 and included in the Encyclopedia of Medical Physics, accessible via the Internet. The same analysis was carried out for the three-language dictionary on radiology and radiation physics of the International Electrotechnical Commission, issued as GOST R IEC 60050-881-2008. Based on the results of the analysis, a short English-Russian dictionary of discussion terms on medical physics, radiation protection, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and radiation diagnostics was developed. Its main difference is the presence in it only of those terms, the literal translation of which from English into Russian either causes lexical difficulties, or is erroneous, or leads to ambiguity of termed concepts. In addition, the dictionary includes those terms, the interpretation of which is debatable for professional specialists and erroneous for non-specialist users.

Analyzed the current state of the terminological system of one of the most difficult sections of high-tech medicine - medical radiology. It is shown that in all three areas of medical radiology (radiation diagnostics, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy) there are a number of terms that do not meet the requirements for scientific terminological systems. These terms do not meet the criteria of unambiguity, adequacy to the term being terminated, consistency, brevity and compliance with the norms of the Russian literary language, especially when directly copying the corresponding English terms. At the same time, it is important to ensure the correct and unambiguous interpretation of the terms not only by professionals in the field of medical radiology, but also by specialists in related fields of knowledge. A brief glossary of such terminological inaccuracies is presented, which contains some of the most commonly used erroneous terms in this area with appropriate explanations for each of them, adapted for all of the above specialists.

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