Le, C.N.N.Miller, J.2020-03-112020-03-112020English for Specific Purposes, 2020; 58:102-1210889-49061873-1937http://hdl.handle.net/2440/123601Medical students with English as an additional language often face difficulties in acquiring English medical terminology derived from Greek and Latin morphemes. To address this problem, this study used a corpus-based approach to identify the most commonly occurring medical morphemes in four sources: Stedman's list of medical morphemes; the Cengage list of general English morphemes; the Center for Development in Learning list of general English morphemes; and the Medical Web Corpus—a web-based corpus of current medical texts available through Sketch Engine text analysis software. Three medical dictionaries were used to validate the findings, leading to a final list of 136 specialized medical morphemes which cover 8.5% of the lexical items in the Medical Web Corpus. The findings provide a reliable and useful resource to help medical students with English as an additional language enhance their English medical vocabulary.en© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Medical terminology; Corpus; MorphemeJournal article100001620810.1016/j.esp.2020.01.0040005279793000092-s2.0-85080960839522705Miller, J. [0000-0002-8706-1695]