Language is as alive as the society using it and is ever-changing. Great developments in medicine have led to many new words or terms being adopted and used in the same form as the foreign origin. Use of these words in lectures, conferences, briefings and reviews has caused some problems and confusion in use of the language. These problems can only be overcome of a common and standard language form is adopted. The purpose of this study was to raise the problems of the Turkish medical language.

Keywords: tıp, Türkçe, dil birliği, medicine, Turkish, language unity.