Качан Богдана. Лексические и графические характеристики сокращений в немецком фаховом языке “Технология лабораторной диагностики и лечения”, способы перевода. В статье рассматривается лексические и графические характеристики сокращений в немецком языке для специальных целей “Технология лабораторной диагностики и лечения”, а также выделены основные виды трансформаций данных сокращений на украинский язык. Во время исследований установлены трудности, с которыми может встретится переводчик, среди них – омонимичность сокращений, вариативность графической формы, частое употребления международных сокращений. Ключевые слова: сокращения, омонимичность, немецкий язык для специальных целей, субъязык медицины, переводческие трансформации. Bogdana Kachan. Lexicological and graphical characteristics of acronyms, their varieties in German language for specific purposes “Technology of laboratory diagnostic and treatment”, methods of translation. The article represents research of lexicological and graphical characteristics of acronyms, their varieties in German language for special purposes “Technologies of laboratory diagnostic and treatment (TLDT)”. Translation of modern professional medical text is one of the most difficult in the practice of translation. Professional medicine language is divided into such subclasses: sublanguages of urology, surgery, cardiology, laboratory diagnostics etc. A main feature of these subclasses is a wide range of acronyms which are typical for these subclasses of professional medical language. Laboratory medicine is in constant development and integrates with technical progress. The steady acceleration of life and the development of medical science determine trends in savings language resources, the principle of which is the desire to achieve maximum communicative effect using less language resources: acronyms, abbreviation etc. Acronyms in the German language for special purposes TLDT have distinctive lexical and graphical features that represent difficulties during transcodification of text by translation. Homonymous, synonymy, variability graphic form and the presence of international copyright and abbreviations which runs translator while working on professional medical texts. It is important in the translation to use the best ways of translation such as transliteration, translation descriptive form which is based on author`s reductions. Key words: acronyms, homonymy, German language for specific purposes, sublanguage of medicine, translational transformations.