Medical Terminology - CNT007P1
Title: Lékařská terminologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages and Medical Terminology 3FM CU (12-UCJA)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/26, C+Ex [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The subject Medical Terminology is taught in the bachelor curriculum, in the Winter semester of the 1st year, and represents a supplementary subject which creates background for the health care specialists with university education. The Nutrition Therapy students gain basic orientation in the language of their particular field. Classical Latin is modified to the needs of medical terminology and supplemented with the basic elements of Greek vocabulary as to meet the requirements of correct understanding terminology in the clinical subjects.
Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (13.09.2021)
Aim of the course -

 

The objective of the subject Medical Terminology is an introduction into the volume/range/ of the Latin and Greek terms and their essential grammar rules for the further understanding of the specialised language structures. Such special language competence will help the students not only within the course of their studies, but also in their future medical practice.

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (13.09.2021)
Course completion requirements -

 Class attendace (max. 3 absences)

Passing 2 partial tests during the semester (written, 70% pass).

Student who was not awarded credit based on the partial tests has to take the credit test at the end of semester.

Passing the  credit test (written, 70% pass).
There is one regular and  3 possible re-sittings for the credit test.
Required knowledge: see syllabus.

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (12.09.2023)
Literature -

 

Obligatory: Přívratská J.: Úvod do preklinické medicíny: Lékařská terminologie. Vyd. UK v Praze, 3. LF, 2013, 67 s. ; Interní elektronické materiály;

Optional:  Svobodová, D.: Terminologiae medicae vestibulum. Praha, Karolinum 2007; Kábrt, J., Kábrt, J. jr.: Lexicon medicum. Třetí, dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha, Galén 2015; 

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (13.09.2021)
Teaching methods -

 

seminar

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (13.09.2021)
Requirements to the exam -

 

 

Examination requirements:  awarded credit

Required knowledge: see the syllabus.

The examination: written test and oral interview.
There are three possible sittings for the exam, the third one is commissional.

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (27.09.2022)
Syllabus -

Syllabus:

1) Brief introduction to the historical development of Graeco-latin medical terminology

2) Basic grammar terminology; pronunciation; medical term structure. Using a dictionary

3) Introduction to the Latin flexion (nouns and adjectives)

4) Lexical base, the most typical substantive- adjective phrases

5) Comparison of adjectives

6) Latin numerals

7) Verbal forms (participals, names of remedies). Nomina anatomica

8) Review. Morphological  and lexical term analysis

9) Greek based vocabulary in clinical practice

10) Third Greek declension, names of diseases (ending –itis/ -osis / -oma)

11) Greek numerals

12) Latin and Greek prefixes a suffixes. Compounds. Word formation

13) Text analysis. Credit test

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (13.09.2021)