Medical Terminology - Latin - EP0101050
Title: Odborná terminologie - latina
Guaranteed by: Ústav jazyků (14-50)
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unlimited (unknown)
summer: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: combined
Level:  
For type:  
Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
Guarantor: Mgr. Dita Macháčková
PhDr. Jiřina Plašilová
Teacher(s): Mgr. Lenka Jindrová
Mgr. Irena Kašparová
PhDr. Jiřina Plašilová
Attributes: Povinné věeobecné curriculum 2019
1. ročník
Interchangeability : E0102047
Is interchangeable with: E0102049, E0102047
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Annotation -
Abstract: basic grammar rules, forming and understanding medical terms in anatomy and other medical branches.<br>
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Grammar - nouns and adjectives, introduction to the Latin declension system, numerals, Latin verbs in medical terminology.<br>
Word formation - overview of word formation - Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes, Greek roots in compound words.<br>
Vocabulary - basic medical terms in anatomical, clinical and pathological terminology, medical prescriptions.<br>
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Winter term - a full-time course, focuses on anatomical nomenclature (Part 1 of the scripts),<br>
Summer term - an e-course, focuses on clinical nomenclature and formulation (Part 2 of the scripts)<br>
Last update: Plašilová Jiřina, PhDr. (25.09.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Requirements for credit

Winter semester 

attendance (a maximum of two unauthorized absences is allowed), in case of exceeding the allowed absences, the student will write a substitute test on previously announced dates 

fulfillment of continuous tests (maximum 3 attempts, at least 70 %) 

passing the credit test (maximum 3 attempts, at least 70 %) - the test can only be written if the required attendance has been met and the first and the second continuous tests have been successfully passed 

 

The tests will include active and passive translations of medical terms, tasks in the area of grammar and word formation. 

A sample of the continuous and credit test is available to studentsThe first continuous test tests the knowledge of the material contained in lessons 1-3, the second test, which is written online and is included in the material Exercises in Latin Medical Terminology with a key on the Moodle, tests the knowledge of the material of lessons 4 and 5, the final credit test tests the knowledge of the material of all the lessons. 

 The tests test: 

1) knowledge of anatomical nomenclature and selected terms from clinical nomenclature and formulary within the scope of the internal study material processed according to the scripts J. Plašilová: Základy latinské lékařské terminologie. Karolinum, Praha 2022, 

2) knowledge of nouns 1st-5th declension, adjectives 1st and 2nd and 3rd declension, perfect passive participles and present active participles and comparison of adjectives, 

3) knowledge of Latin and Greek word bases used in medical terminology, analysis of the formation of medical expressions and active formation of terms using Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes. 

 

Summer semester (e-course) 

Requirements 

1) continuous completion of assigned written assignments for lessons. 

2) passing the continuous test in the classroom (maximum 3 attempts, at least 70 %) 

3) passing the final test in the classroom (maximum 3 attempts, at least 70 %), the final test can only be written if the required tasks have been previously completed and the continuous test has been successfully completed 

 

The tests check:

1) knowledge of the vocabulary listed in the lessons of the e-course and the vocabulary contained in authentic examples from the hospital information system 

2) knowledge of Latin and Greek word bases used in clinical nomenclature, analysis of the formation of medical terms and active formation of terms using Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes in clinical nomenclature 

3) knowledge of the most common abbreviations in clinical nomenclature and in a prescription.

Last update: Clareová Dagmar, BA (01.10.2025)
Literature -

Literature:

Winter term:

Compulsory: J. Plašilová: Základy latinské lékařské terminologie. Karolinum, Praha 2022.

Recomanded: Cvičení z latinské terminologie s klíčem – J. Plašilová –  Moodle learning platform.

E-COURSE                 

Latina - klinické názvosloví pro všeobecné lékařství.  J. Plašilová.  Moodle learning platform. https://lms.lfp.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=545

Last update: Plašilová Jiřina, PhDr. (15.09.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

This course does not require a final exam.

See Conditions for completing the course.

Last update: Clareová Dagmar, BA (02.10.2025)
Syllabus -

Winter term:

1.   Pronunciation of Latin sounds. Introduction to grammar - categories of nouns and adjectives, categories of verbs. Declension of nouns. Cases. 

      1st declension - Latin nouns, Greek nouns. 

2.   2nd declension - Latin nouns, Greek nouns.

3.   Adjectives: 1st and 2nd declension. Ordinal numerals.

4.   Adjectives: 1st and 2nd declension. Ordinal numerals - practice.

5.   Continuous test. 4th and 5th declensions. 

6.   3rd declension - masculine and feminine nouns. (Latin and Greek nouns.)

7.   3rd declension - masculine and feminine nouns. (Latin and Greek nouns.)

8.   3rd declension - neuter nouns.  (Latin and Greek nouns.)

9.   3rd declension - practice.  

10.  3rd declension - adjectives. Latin participles.

11.  Regular, irregular and incomplete comparison of adjectives.

12.  Revision.

13.  Credit test - part 1

E-COURSE

1.   Latin verbs in medical terminology. Imperative, present subjunctive. Instructions, commands and prohibitions in medical terminology.

2.   1st declension - Latin nouns, Greek nouns. Prepositions. 

3.   2nd declension - Latin nouns, Greek nouns.

4.   Adjectives: 1st and 2nd declension. Ordinal numerals.

5.   4th and 5th declensions. 

6.   3rd declension - masculine and feminine nouns. (Latin and Greek nouns.)

7.   3rd declension - masculine and feminine nouns. (Latin and Greek nouns.)

8.   3rd declension - neuter nouns.  (Latin and Greek nouns.)

9.   3rd declension - adjectives. Latin participles.

10.  Regular, irregular and incomplete comparison of adjectives.

11.  Numerals - cardinal, ordinal, multiple, numeral adverbs. Prescriptions in Latin.

 

 

Last update: Plašilová Jiřina, PhDr. (15.09.2025)
Learning resources - Czech

Latina on-line

Last update: Duchková Barbora (02.10.2020)
Learning outcomes -

After completing the course, students will be able to: 

  • correctly pronounce medical terms 

  • know and use the basic terminological vocabulary of anatomical nomenclature and other medical fields (approx. 2000 terms) 

  • recognize the syntactic structure of multi-word Latin expressions  

  • translate two-word and multi-word phrases and expressions in a prescription from Latin into Czech and from Czech into Latin   

  • derive the meaning of unfamiliar terms based on the knowledge of Latin and Greek word-forming components 

  • create derived and compound terms using word-forming components 

  • explain the meaning of all anatomical abbreviations and the abbreviations most commonly used in clinical nomenclature and prescriptions 

  • translate selected fixed Latin medical expressions into Czech

 

 

Last update: Clareová Dagmar, BA (01.10.2025)