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Medical Terminology - Latin - CMTLXX21

Title:	Lékařská terminologie - latina
Guaranteed by:	Department of Languages and Medical Terminology 3FM CU (12-UCJA)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2016
Semester:	winter
Points:	1
E-Credits:	1
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:0/30, C [HT]
Extent per academic year:	30 [hours]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc.
Classification:	Medicine > Auxiliary Subjects
Attributes:	Samostatný kurz

Examination dates Schedule

Annotation -

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (06.06.2008)

Annotation: The course is designed as an introduction into the language of medicine, showing the origins of the medical terms, its language analysis and grammatical structures (Latin as well as Greek). Such an understanding of the specialised terminology is essential for its correct lexical and grammatical usage.

Aim of the course -

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (06.06.2008)

Medical Terminology ? LATIN

Objective:

Students will familiarize themselves with the structure of the Latin and Greek medical terminology, they will learn to analyse the terms from the grammatical, morphological, and even etymological points of view and to use them functionally. They will further develop their knowledge through understanding the terms in the broader context of the language and the content.

Literature -

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (06.06.2008)

TEACHING MATERIALS:

1) An Introduction to Greco-Latin Medical Terminology / Dana Svobodová. - Praha: Karolinum Press, 2006.

2) Medical Terminology: A short course /Davi-Ellen Chabner, Philadelphia/London : W.B. Saunders Comp., 1991

Teaching methods -

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (06.06.2008)

TEACHING METHODS:

Practice

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (02.10.2011)

Winter semester:

Pass of three partial tests (of four) during the semester (70% pass), plus presence at the practical classes (maximum of three absences per 1 semester) - in that case students are awarded a credit;

if they do not meet the requirements (pass of three tests and presence at the course), they have to write the credit test (70% pass).
There are 2 possible re-sittings for the credit test.

Syllabus -

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (02.10.2011)

COURSE SYLLABUS:

Winter Term:

The development of medical terminology from a historical context; methods of study; program of the course.
Basic Latin grammatical terminology. Latin word categories. Word forms. Flexion. Pronunciation and intonation.
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 1st declension. Prepositions used with the accusative and the ablative case. Vocabulary - basic rules.
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 2nd declension. Ordinal numbers. The structure of an anatomical term.
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 4th declension.
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 5th declension. Substantivization of adjectives.

Declension of Latin nouns: 3rd declension - imparisyllaba (dolor - operatio - caput).

Declension of Latin nouns: 3rd declension - parisyllaba (pelvis) and exceptions to the 3rd declension rules.
Diagnostic procedures and surgical interventions in MT.
Greek nouns in the Latin declension (3rd declension): ureter - basis - trauma; terminological classification of illness: -itis, -osis, -oma. Diagnosis clinica.
Greek nouns in the Latin declension (1st and 2nd declension): systole - diabetes - bronchos ? kranion.
Revision of the 1st-5th declension Latin nouns, Greek 1st-3rd declension and adjectives A type.

Adjectives of the 3rd declension.