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The study of preparing a new medical terminology had been intensified with the efforts of converting medical lessons into Turkish, in the second half of 19th century. The new medical language was mainly based on Arabic and Persian words. In the first years of the republic period there has been a movement of leaving foreign words. There are not much Arabic or Persian words in medical language today. Current medical terminology and the terminology which had used from the second half of the 19th century until the first years of the Republic are different considerably. As a result it is rather difficult to understand old medical texts today. A limited glossary of three otorhinolaryngology books, which are written with the medical terminology used until 1930's, is being presented in this study.