رادیودرمانی
رادیودرمانی (râdio-darmâni) means radiotherapy, the use of radiation to treat cancer. The first element comes from English/French, the second from Persian darman (cure).
Glossary
گواهینامه پزشکی
گواهینامه پزشکی (govâhinâme-ye pezeshki) means a medical certificate or doctor’s note in Persian. It is formed entirely from native Persian elements: گواهی (testimony), نامه (letter/document), and پزشکی (medical).
بیماری قندی
بیماری قندی (bimâri-ye qandi) is the colloquial Persian phrase for diabetes, literally “sugar sickness.” It combines the native Persian word for illness with an adjective derived from قند (sugar), which entered Persian from Sanskrit.
حرارت
حرارت (harârat) means body temperature or warmth in Persian, especially in the context of fever. The word is borrowed from Arabic and is standard in formal medical speech.
نبض قلب
نبض قلب (nabz-e qalb) means heartbeat or pulse rate in Persian. Both words are Arabic in origin: نبض (pulse) and قلب (heart), and the phrase is standard in medical and everyday contexts.
پوستپزشک
پوستپزشک (pust-pezeshk) means dermatologist in Persian. It is a native compound of two pure Persian words: پوست (skin) and پزشک (physician), formed to describe a skin specialist.
نورولوژیست
نورولوژیست (norolozhist) is the Persian term for a neurologist, a specialist in the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. Borrowed into Persian from French medical vocabulary, which built the term on Greek roots: neuron (nerve) and logos (study).
بیماری واگیردار
بیماری واگیردار (bimâri-ye vâgirdâr) means contagious disease or infectious illness. All components are native Persian, built from the prefix وا, the verb گرفتن, and the suffix دار, meaning disease-spreading.
بیماری مزمن
بیماری مزمن (bimâri-ye mozman) means chronic illness or long-term disease. The phrase pairs a native Persian noun with an Arabic adjective from the root for time, and it belongs to formal medical register.
پیشگیری
پیشگیری (pishgiri) means prevention, especially the prevention of disease. Both components are native Persian, and the word is standard in formal health, medical, and public policy contexts in Iran.