RESUMEN
The establishment of regulated and accurate clinical terms of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) liver failure jaundice is an important foundation and guarantee of the construction of TCM clinical practice and scientif-ic research unified information platform of liver failure jaundice . This study combined current clinical and re-search needs to determine the term coverage, improved the terminology classification framework, collected through multiple channels of liver failure jaundice related terms, followed the naming of scientific and technical terms. The connotation was based on the logic of concept definition requirements and technological terminology defined rules. The expert consultation and deliberation were combined to clarify logical relationship between terms. Con-cept of term system was established and the liver failure jaundice term set was formed .
RESUMEN
During the Qin-Han Dynasty,the system of terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) has been initially established.With the progress of TCM subject and increasing of academic exchanges,one word having two or more meanings,one meaning with two or more words,and development of meanings of words have come into sight,following with the appearance of new concepts and terms.TCM terms have their distinction.The characteristics of TCM terms were: characteristic of history; ②characteristic of culture;qualitative description;using concrete word to describe the abstract concept.During the new century,TCM needs modernization.Clear concept and standard terms are important for modernization of TCM.Meanwhile,there was confusion on translation of terms on the internationalization of TCM.Standard terms were precondition of the academic exchange and popularizing TCM.In a word,the standardization of terms of TCM became one of the keys for the modernization and internationalization of TCM.