Basic Medical Terminology - B80363 (General Medicine, English parallel)

• Title: Basic Medical Terminology
• Guaranteed by: Institute of History of Medicine and Foreign Languages First Faculty of Medicine Charles University (11-00220)
• Faculty: First Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]; summer s.:0/2, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 60 [hours]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Explanation: Doc. Mgr. Karel Černý, Ph.D.
• Additional information: http://udl.lf1.cuni.cz
• Old code: 363
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Karel Černý, Ph.D.
• Attributes: Lékařství; Teoretický předmět
• Is co-requisite for: B83126

Annotation

Course provides an introduction to current medical terminology in Central Europe. The explanation is focused mostly on formal attributes of professional medical terminology in anatomical (Latinized) as well as clinical context. It is expected that the content of professional medical communication (as opposite to the formal framework of the terminology) is provided by other major subjects like anatomy, physiology etc. Following local conventions, the attention is primarily given to Greek-Latin vocabulary as it is used in anatomical terms and clinical diagnoses.

Last update: Kolářová Jana (10.02.2020)

Literature

Internal study materials distributed by the respective teacher.

Last update: Beran Aleš, Mgr., Ph.D. (26.09.2019)

Requirements to the exam

This is a two-term subject. In order to complete the course, students have to sit three subsequent evaluations:

1) winter credit (Cr1): Cr1 is given either for sufficient performance in progress tests (70 per cent and more) during the semester and a satisfactory attendance, or for a complete credit test 1 which is written at the end of the winter term or within winter exam period,

2) summer credit (Cr2): as above: Cr2 is given either for sufficient performance in progress tests (70 per cent and more) during the semester and a satisfactory attendance, or for a complete credit test 2 which is written at the end of the summer term or within summer exam period,

3) final exam (written test) that covers the grammar of the whole subject.

Last update: Beran Aleš, Mgr., Ph.D. (26.09.2019)

Syllabus

Primary Topics:

1) Pronunciation.

2) History, current forms, and perspectives of Medical Terminology.

3) Simplified Latin nominal inflections and use of basic prepositions.

4) Word-building, creation of Greek medical composites including basic vocabulary of related lexicological building components.

5) Introduction to current medical prescriptions in the Czech Republic.

6) Use of abbreviations in medical context.

Winter Term

1. General Overview, Notes on Pronunciation, Spelling, Reading.

2. Grammatical Case, Number, and Gender.

3. 1^st Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.

4. 2^nd Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.

5. 1^st and 2^nd Declension Adjectives: Grammar and Vocabulary.

6. Review Lesson, Testing.

7. 4^th Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.

8. 5^th Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.

9. 3^rd Declension Imparisyllabics: Difference between Imparisyllabic and Parisyllabic group, Stem Change, Grammar and Vocabulary.

10. 3^rd Declension Parisyllabics: Grammar and Vocabulary.

11. 3^rd Declension Adjectives: Grammar and Vocabulary.

12. Clinical Terminology: Introduction, Stems, Endings.

13. Clinical Terminology: Prefixes, Review of Clinical Terminology.

14. Review Lesson, Testing.

15. Credit Test.

Summer Term

1. Review Lesson, Dictionary Forms, Syntactical Relations, Nominal Grammar.

2. Prepositions, Syntax of Prepositions (Accusative and Ablative).

3. 1^st and 2^nd Declension Nouns with Prepositions.

4. 1^st and 2^nd Declension Adjectives with Prepositions, Adjectives Used as Nouns.

5. Review Lesson, Testing.

6. 4^th and 5^th Declension Nouns with Prepositions.

7. 3^rd Declension Imparisyllabic Nouns with Prepositions, Stem Change.

8. 3^rd Declension Parisyllabic Nouns with Prepositions, Stem Change.

9. Review of the 3^rd Declension Nouns in Acc. and Abl.

10. 3^rd Declension Adjectives with Prepositions.
11. Comparatives (and Superlatives): Grammar, Vocabulary, Exceptions.

12. Clinical Terminology, Latin Numerals, Greek Numerals as Parts of Compound Words.

13. Introduction to Verbs in Latin, Vocabulary of Remedies.

14. Greek Paradigms.

Last update: Kolářová Jana (10.02.2020)