Terms are the support and foundation of discipline theory. But there is lack of systemic cognition and necessary professional terminology support in Chinese and western medicine rehabilitation for cognitive dysfunction.Based on International Classification of Functioning

Disability and Health by World Health Organization

the frame of rehabilitation terminology of cognitive dysfunction in Chinese and western medicine may be constructed by determining the connotation and extension of rehabilitation terms

collecting rehabilitation terms

and setting frame structure of rehabilitation terminology adopting the method of ontology construction. Meanwhile

terms of cognitive dysfunction in Chinese and western medicine are mapped. This paper might lay the foundation for further study of cognitive dysfunction.